DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES v. A JUVENILE


384 Mass. 784 (1981)

429 N.E.2d 709

DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES vs. A JUVENILE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Worcester.

December 22, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Margaret H. Van Deusen for the defendant.

Lynn Morrill Turcotte, Assistant District Attorney, for Department of Youth Services.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, LIACOS, NOLAN, & LYNCH, JJ.


HENNESSEY, C.J.

This appeal concerns the statutory process by which a juvenile under the control of the Department of Youth Services (department) may obtain review of an order extending the period of his commitment beyond his eighteenth birthday. The questions raised call for a construction of G.L.c. 120, § 20, which grants a right of appeal from a judgment confirming a Department of Youth Services extended commitment...

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