In Re Khork

In In re Khork, 71 N.C. App. 151, 156, 321 S.E.2d 487, 490 (1984), no evidence was submitted at the dispositional hearing either as to the appropriateness of commitment to a juvenile facility or as to the inappropriateness of a community-based disposition. Id. at 155, 321 S.E.2d at 490. The Court held based on that record: Where no evidence of the appropriateness of incarceration is presented in the dispositional hearing, the juvenile may not be committed based upon the perceived seriousness of the offense alone. Such actions would otherwise render the dispositional hearing a useless formality . . . ." Id. at 155-56, 321 S.E.2d at 490.