The court properly exercised its discretion when it denied appellant's request for a dismissal, or an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal, and instead adjudicated him a juvenile delinquent and imposed a conditional discharge. Given the seriousness of appellant's underlying criminal conduct, along with truancy, ineffective parental control and his lack of judgment in the selection of friends and companions, the court adopted the least restrictive dispositional alternative...
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