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IN RE CONTEMPT FINDING AGAINST B.L.P.

No. 83-911.

118 Wis.2d 33 (1984)

345 N.W.2d 510

IN the MATTER OF the CONTEMPT FINDING AGAINST B.L.P., a juvenile under the age of 18: B.L.P., Appellant, v. CIRCUIT COURT FOR RACINE COUNTY, Honorable Jon B. Skow, presiding, and Racine County Department of Social Services, Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided February 1, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant, the cause was submitted on the briefs of Steven P. Weiss, assistant state public defender.

For the respondent, the cause was submitted on the brief of Margaret Borkin, assistant district attorney, of Racine, and a supplemental brief was submitted by Bronson C. La Follette, attorney general, and Kirbie Knutson, assistant attorney general.

An amicus curiae brief was submitted on behalf of the Circuit Court for Racine County, Honorable Jon B. Skow, Presiding, by Michael P. Erhard and David J. Harth of Foley & Lardner, of Madison.

Before Scott, C.J., Brown, P.J., and Nettesheim, J.

BROWN, P.J.

B.L.P. appeals to contempt finding for violating a dispositional order. Because we hold that juvenile courts must follow the procedures in chapter 785 of the Wisconsin Statutes when exercising contempt powers, we reverse.1

On October 26, 1982, B.L.P., a sixteen-year-old girl, was adjudged delinquent after being caught shoplifting. The juvenile court's dispositional order contained...

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