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STATE EX REL. J.C.

No. 00-1336.

775 So.2d 1266 (2000)

STATE of Louisiana in the Interest of J.C.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

December 29, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Phil Haney, A.C. Elias, District Attorney, New Iberia, LA, Counsel for State of Louisiana.

M. Craig Colwart, Lucretia Pecantte-Burton, Indigent Defender Board, New Iberia, LA, Counsel for the Child, J.C.

(Court composed of COOKS, AMY and PICKETT, Judges.)

COOKS, Judge.

J.C., a minor through his appointed representative, has appealed a lower court ruling finding him ungovernable as defined by La.Ch.Code art. 730(2), and ordering his placement with the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, Office of Youth Development, until his eighteenth birthday.1 For the following reasons, we vacate and set aside the child's commitment and remand for re-disposition.

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