COMMONWEALTH v. DAVIS

No. 02-P-402.

56 Mass. App. Ct. 410 (2002)

COMMONWEALTH v. JAMAL DAVIS.

Court of Appeals of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

November 8, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeremy C. Bucci, Assistant District Attorney (Edmond J. Zabin, Assistant District Attorney, with him) for the Commonwealth.

Matthew A. Kamholtz for the defendant.

Present: GRASSO, KANTROWITZ, & COWIN, JJ.


GRASSO, J.

Before us is a reported question from the Superior Court that involves whether G. L. c. 119, § 72A, requires a Juvenile Court judge to make written subsidiary findings when deciding whether an individual who commits an offense prior to his seventeenth birthday but is not apprehended until after his eighteenth birthday may be prosecuted as an adult. The question arises in the following context.

Background. On the afternoon of January...

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