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STATE EX REL. R.S. v. TRENT

No. 15444.

289 S.E.2d 166 (1982)

STATE ex rel. R. S. v. George TRENT, Supt., WVISB, et al.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

March 12, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles R. Garten, Jr., Charleston, Paul Mones, Morgantown, for relator.

Chauncey H. Browning, Jr., Atty. Gen. and Janet Frye Steele, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondents.

McGRAW, Justice:

The petitioner, a sixteen-year-old male currently incarcerated in the West Virginia Industrial School for Boys, seeks a writ of habeas corpus to compel his release from the institution and a writ of mandamus to compel the committing court to place him in an appropriate residential treatment facility to meet his individual rehabilitative needs. He contends that his incarceration is illegal in that: (1) the...

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