Case Title: In re K.B.

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State: vermont

Court: Vermont Supreme Court

Date: 1990-09-01T00:00:00Z

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                                No. 89-546


In re K.B., Juvenile                         Supreme Court

                                             On Appeal from
                                             District Court of Vermont,
                                             Unit No. 2, Addison Circuit

                                             September Term, 1990



Linda Levitt, J.

Jeffrey L. Amestoy, Attorney General, and David Tartter, Assistant Attorney
   General, Montpelier, for plaintiff-appellee

Walter M. Morris, Jr., Defender General, and William A. Nelson, Appellate
   Defender, Montpelier, for defendant-appellant



PRESENT:  Allen, C.J., Peck, Gibson, Dooley and Morse, JJ.


     MORSE, J.   K.B. appeals an adjudication that he was a juvenile
delinquent based on an unlawful trespass.  We affirm.
     Under 13 V.S.A. { 3705(a)(1),
           A person shall be imprisoned for not more than three
         months or fined not more than $500.00, or both, if,
         without legal authority or the consent of the person in
         lawful possession, he enters or remains on any land or
         in any place as to which notice against trespass is
         given by . . . [a]ctual communication by the person in
         lawful possession . . . .

The juvenile court found that on the morning of May 27, 1989, K.B. went to a
service station owned and operated by Harley Muzzy to look at a wrecked car
owned by K.B.'s friend.  Muzzy asked K.B. to stay away from the car, and
K.B. left.  Later, K.B. returned and, upon being told again by Muzzy to stay
away from the car, K.B. threatened Muzzy, who then called the police.  K.B
left the area only to return once again, this time with his friend who owned
the car.  K.B. told Muzzy in effect that Muzzy could not stop him from
being here.  The police were called again, and K.B. was charged with
unlawful trespass.  The court concluded K.B. was guilty of that offense
"because Mr. Muzzy did give notice to [K.B.] not to be in the area of the
cars.  After he was told to leave, he left and then came back again and
again was in the same area around the cars." 
      K.B. testified he returned to Muzzy's only once, with his friend who
owned the wrecked car.  Muzzy testified K.B. returned twice, the version
accepted by the court.  K.B. argues that the court's failure to specify
which return constituted the offense violated the rule set forth in State v.
Corliss, 149 Vt. 100, 102-03,