In re R.G. CA1/1

I. BACKGROUND

A student at appellant’s high school texted his father a screenshot of an Instagram post that showed two students with guns in a bathroom at the school. The father called the police. The police showed the screenshot to

1 Miranda v. Arizona (1966) 384 U.S. 436 (Miranda). school staff, who identified appellant as one of the two students in the photo. The staff informed the police that appellant and the other student in the post were scheduled to be in gym class. The police placed the school on lockdown and set up a perimeter around the gym. Before the police could enter the gym, an officer observed appellant walking away from the building towards them. The officer noticed appellant’s clothing matched that worn by one of the students in the Instagram photo. Officer Ezra Tafesse testified that he and another officer “approached [appellant] and he was then handcuffed and detained. . . . [W]e searched him and we did not find the same backpack that we had seen in the photo.” The officer did not provide appellant with a Miranda warning before asking him “if he had [the backpack pictured in the Instagram photo] inside the gym.” Appellant replied, “[Y]eah, the red…