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IN RE DEMETRIUS J.

Nos. 100-102, September Term, 1990.

321 Md. 468 (1991)

583 A.2d 258

IN RE DEMETRIUS J., DARVANION M., SHAWN J.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

January 2, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judson P. Garrett, Jr., Deputy Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Ronald M. Levitan, Deborah Farmer Minot, and Cecilia Januszkiewicz, Asst. Attys. Gen., all on brief), Baltimore, for petitioners.

Stuart O. Simms, State's Atty. (Mary V. McNamara, Asst. State's Atty., both on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

Michael R. Braudes, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, both on brief), Baltimore, for amicus curiae, Susan P. Leviton for Advocates for Children and Youth.

Argued before ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, JJ., and CHARLES E. ORTH, Judge of the Court of Appeals (retired, Specially Assigned), and ALAN M. WILNER, Judge of the Court of Special Appeals (Specially Assigned).

CHARLES E. ORTH, Judge, Retired Specially Assigned.

We are called upon by these appeals, consolidated for our review, to resolve a question concerning the authority prescribed by the Legislature for the disposition of a child1 adjudicated to be delinquent.2 Specifically, we are asked to determine:

Whether § 3-820 of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article authorizes a juvenile court to commit...

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