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MATTER OF L.J.

No. 88-151.

546 A.2d 429 (1988)

In the Matter of L.J., Appellant.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 18, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Goemann, appointed by the court, and Shari D. Leventhal, Law Student, were on the brief, for appellant.

Frederick D. Cooke, Jr., Corp. Counsel, Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corp. Counsel, and Mary L. Wilson, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before TERRY and SCHWELB, Associate Judges, and REILLY, Senior Judge.

SCHWELB, Associate Judge:

Respondent L.J. was fifteen and a half years old in mid-June 1987 when, at or about 3:00 a.m., assisted by an 18 year old confederate, A.P.G., he fired an UZI automatic weapon at an automobile occupied by two men with whom he had quarreled, leaving seventeen bullet holes in the vehicle. In this unusual appeal, L.J. claims that the trial judge "abused his discretion" in not lifting a court-imposed restriction on his release from the Children...

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