N.D.F. v. STATE

No. 49S02-0103-JV-144.

775 N.E.2d 1085 (2002)

N.D.F., Appellant-Respondent, v. STATE of Indiana, Appellee-Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Indiana.

October 7, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ann M. Sutton, Marion County Public Defender Agency, Indianapolis, IN, Attorney for Appellant.

Karen M. Freeman-Wilson, Attorney General of Indiana, Janet Parsanko, Deputy Attorney General Indianapolis, IN, Attorneys for Appellees.


CIVIL TRANSFER

RUCKER, Justice.

Summary

Under the juvenile determinate sentencing statute, a juvenile court may send a juvenile to the Department of Correction for a fixed term of two years provided, among other things, the juvenile has accumulated "two (2) unrelated prior adjudications of delinquency." We hold today that despite similar wording in the adult habitual offender statute, the meaning of the phrase in the juvenile context is...

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