IN RE F.G.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jennifer P. Lyman, Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein and Maureen T. Cannon, Public Defender Service, were on the briefs, for appellant.

Mary L. Wilson, Asst. Corp. Counsel, with whom John H. Suda, Acting Corp. Counsel at the time the original brief was filed, Frederick D. Cooke, Jr., Corporation Counsel at the time the petition for rehearing was filed, Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corp. Counsel, and Lutz Alexander Prager and Michele Guiliani, Asst. Corp. Counsel, were on the briefs, for the District of Columbia.

Mary Ellen Abrecht, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Timothy J. Reardon III, Principal Asst. U.S. Atty., and Michael W. Farrell, Asst. U.S. Atty. at the time the brief was filed, were on the brief, for U.S. as amicus curiae.

Before ROGERS, Chief Judge, NEWMAN, FERREN, BELSON, TERRY, and STEADMAN, Associate Judges, and MACK, Senior Judge.