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JAKE J., A JUVENILE v. COMMONWEALTH

433 Mass. 70 (2000)

JAKE J., a juvenile v. COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

December 19, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dana Alan Curhan for the juvenile.

Kimberly Diaz Peterson, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Thomas F. Reilly, Attorney General, & Pamela L. Hunt, Assistant Attorney General, for Juvenile Court Department, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., GREANEY, IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, & SOSMAN, JJ.

IRELAND, J.

The issues in this case arose when a Juvenile Court judge ordered a juvenile taken into custody for failing to obey school rules, but did not clarify whether her order resulted from the juvenile's violation of conditions of probation or violation of conditions of bail. This uncertainty ultimately resulted in the appeal before us.

In Commonwealth v. Dodge, 428 Mass. 860, 864-866 (1999), we stated...

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