We hold that subdivision 2-a of section 753-a of the Family Court Act, which provides for mandatory restrictive placement of the State's most violent juvenile offenders, is constitutional. However, an error in the fact-finding stage of this proceeding mandates reversal of appellant's juvenile delinquency adjudication.
The statute under attack here provides that, where a youth between...
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