Attorney General for the State of North Carolina argues for the State in this case.  Question at issue:

Whether a court may consider a juvenile’s age in a Miranda custody analysis in evaluating the totality of the circumstances and determining whether a reasonable person in the juvenile’s position would have felt he or she was not free to terminate police questioning and leave?

–My take—A better question would be: does the State actually expect a child to have the “mind set” of an adult?

Listen to argument here: http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_audio_detail.aspx?argument=09-11121

No. 09–11121. J. D. B. v. North Carolina.
Certiorari to the Supreme Court of North Carolina. For petitioner: Barbara S. Blackman, Durham, N. C. For respondent: Roy Cooper, Attorney General, Raleigh,
N. C.; and Eric J. Feigin, Assistant to the Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. (for United States, as amicus curiae.)
(1 hour for argument.)