IN RE WILLIAMS D.

No. 17783.

933 A.2d 1147 (2007)

284 Conn. 305

In re WILLIAM D.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided November 13, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. Keith Foren, assistant public defender, for the appellant (respondent).

Maura Murphy Osborne, assistant attorney general, with whom, on the brief, were Richard Blumenthal, attorney general, and Susan Quinn Cobb, assistant attorney general, for the appellee (petitioner).

ROGERS, C.J., and KATZ, PALMER, ZARELLA and SCHALLER, Js.


KATZ, J.

The sole issue in this certified appeal is whether the Appellate Court properly concluded that the term "child," as used in General Statutes § 46b-141 (b),1 which permits the trial court to extend a delinquency commitment when "such extension is for the best interest of the child," refers to the status of that person at the time of commitment, rather than at the time that the court entertains the application to extend the...

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