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JEFFERY v. McHUGH

No. 14666.

273 S.E.2d 837 (1980)

Mary Alice JEFFERY, Administratrix, etc. v. Thomas E. McHUGH, Chief Judge of the 13th Judicial Circuit of West Virginia.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided January 20, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay M. Potter, John R. Mitchell, Charleston, for petitioner.

James E. Roark, Pros. Atty., Kanawha County, Charleston, Pamela Dawn Tarr, Asst. P. A., Kanawha County, Charleston, for respondent.

HARSHBARGER, Justice:

On September 30, 1979, seventeen-year-old M.D.J. apparently hanged himself in the Kanawha County Jail. The circumstances of his death received widespread publicity, and twelve days later the county prosecutor moved the circuit court for an order opening the juvenile's records. Chief Judge Thomas McHugh:

... ORDERED that any and all dispositional orders; (2) any and all transcripts of juvenile proceedings before this Court; and (3) a...

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