State of Indiana v. Anthony J. Neukam

── State of Indiana v. Anthony J. Neukam ── Case No.: 21S-CR-00567 Court: Indiana Supreme Court Date: June 23, 2022 Author: Justice Geoffrey Slaughter County of Origin: Dubois Category: Criminal Decision: Affirmed Justice Rush and Justice David concur. Justice Massa and Justice Goff dissent In 2020, we held juvenile courts lose jurisdiction once an alleged delinquent child reaches twenty-one years of age. But we left open the question whether the State can file criminal charges against a person who committed the charged conduct before turning eighteen but is no longer a child under the juvenile code. Under the governing statutes, a child’s delinquent act does not ripen into a crime when the child ages out of the juvenile system. The result is that neither the juvenile court nor the circuit court has jurisdiction here.