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COM. v. CHATMAN

Record No. 992706.

538 S.E.2d 304 (2000)

260 Va. 562

COMMONWEALTH of Virginia v. Christopher Lyance CHATMAN.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

November 3, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. McLees, Jr., Senior Assistant Attorney General (Mark L. Earley, Attorney General, on brief), for appellant.

C. Gilbert Hudson, Jr., Emporia (Hudson, Novey, Robinson & Tomko, on brief), for appellee.

Present: CARRICO, C.J., LACY, HASSELL, KEENAN, KOONTZ, and KINSER, JJ., and COMPTON, Senior Justice.

KINSER, Justice.

In this appeal, we address a question of first impression in this Commonwealth, whether a 13-year-old juvenile has either a constitutional or statutory right to assert an insanity defense at the adjudicatory phase of a juvenile delinquency proceeding. Because we conclude that a juvenile does not have that right in such proceedings under either the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment or the statutes...

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