The five Quakertown Community High School students arrested last month are scheduled to appear in Bucks County Juvenile Court next week in Doylestown. The court has scheduled the adjudication hearing, the equivalent of a trial, on Friday, March 20, for the five arrested on Feb. 20 following a physical altercation with borough police, according to multiple defense attorneys.

            Attorneys representing the students will file for a continuance, according to Ettore "Ed" Angelo, a Quakertown attorney defending a 15-year-old girl arrested during the melee. He claimed they will likely need additional time to prepare their defense for a "very complicated" case.

            "It's unlikely anyone will be ready for the hearing," wrote Christine Cregar, a Montgomery Township attorney representing a 16-year-old girl.

            According to Cregar, a judge will at least hold a detention hearing for all the defendants that day. She wrote that they remain on house arrest while wearing monitors.

            Defense attorneys have not ...