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MATTER OF TWO MINOR CHILDREN

Nos. 9918, 10127 and 10132.

592 P.2d 166 (1979)

In the Matter of TWO MINOR CHILDREN. Dr. Charles R. DICKSON, Administrator of the Division of Mental Hygiene and Mental Retardation of the Department of Human Resources of the State of Nevada, and the Division of Mental Hygiene and Mental Retardation of the Department of Human Resources of the State of Nevada, Petitioners, v. The SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT of the State of Nevada, IN AND FOR the COUNTY OF WASHOE, DEPARTMENT J, and The Honorable Peter I. Breen, Judge Thereof, Respondents. DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES of the State of Nevada, DIVISION OF MENTAL HYGIENE AND MENTAL RETARDATION, Appellant, v. MINORS UNDER the AGE OF EIGHTEEN YEARS, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

March 16, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard H. Bryan, Atty. Gen., Carson City, and Emmagene Sansing, Deputy Atty. Gen., Division of Mental Hygiene & Mental Retardation, Reno, for petitioners.

Calvin R.X. Dunlap, Dist. Atty., Don Nomura and A. Stanyan Peck, Deputy Dist. Attys., Reno, for respondents.

OPINION

MANOUKIAN, Justice:

The district attorney of Washoe County filed a petition in the juvenile court alleging two minors had committed delinquent acts. Upon motion by public defender, counsel for the minors, the court ordered psychiatric evaluations. The psychiatric evaluations indicated that neither was sufficiently competent to assist counsel in defending against the delinquency allegations.

Because the court could not proceed with the delinquency...

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