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GONSALVES v. DEVINE

No. 1039-M.P.

294 A.2d 206 (1972)

Frank GONSALVES, Jr. v. Joseph DEVINE, Superintendent Rhode Island Training School for Boys.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

August 17, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John T. Walsh, Jr., Higgins & Slattery, V. Paul McGinn, R.I. Legal Services, Inc., Providence, for petitioner.

Richard J. Israel, Atty. Gen., Donald P. Ryan, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.

OPINION

JOSLIN, Justice.

On March 26, 1970, Frank Gonsalves, Jr., then a minor of 16 years, appeared in the Family Court to answer a petition charging him with making "a physical assault on [a] teacher at Central Junior High School." A Family Court justice found him to be a wayward child and ordered him committed to the custody of the Rhode Island Training School until further order of the court. Gonsalves thereupon petitioned this court for a writ of habeas...

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