S.G.W. v. PEOPLE

No. 86SC393.

752 P.2d 86 (1988)

S.G.W., Child-Petitioner, v. The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, in the Interest of S.G.W., Respondent.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied April 11, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip R. Cockerille, P.C., Philip R. Cockerille, Denver, for child-petitioner.

Duane Woodard, Atty. Gen., Charles B. Howe, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., Richard H. Forman, Solicitor General Cynthia D. Jones, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for respondent.


QUINN, Chief Justice.

The question presented in this case is whether the Colorado Children's Code authorizes a juvenile court to commit a "repeat-juvenile offender" who is also a "mandatory sentence offender" to the Department of Institutions (department) for a two-year term consecutive to a two-year commitment imposed in a separate delinquency adjudication.1 The court of appeals upheld the consecutive commitment imposed by the juvenile...

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