DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. M. E. H.

No. 6439.

312 A.2d 561 (1973)

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellant, v. M. E. H., Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided November 28, 1973.

As Amended December 5, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard W. Barton, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., with whom C. Francis Murphy, Corp. Counsel, and David P. Sutton, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellant.

Mervin Cherrin, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before REILLY, Chief Judge, and KELLY, FICKLING, KERN, GALLAGHER, NEBEKER, PAIR, YEAGLEY and HARRIS, Associate Judges, sitting en banc.


PAIR, Associate Judge:

This appeal by the District of Columbia (District) raises an important question respecting the jurisdiction of this court to review orders of the Family Division of the Superior Court, entered at the prehearing stage of a juvenile delinquency proceeding. The appeal was heard initially by a division of this court which, by an order entered April 23, 1973, dismissed the appeal for want of jurisdiction — one judge dissenting. However, upon...

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