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W.D.B. v. COM.

No. 2006-SC-000937-DG.

246 S.W.3d 448 (2007)

W.D.B. (a Child Under Eighteen), Appellant. v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

November 21, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy G. Arnold, Assistant Public Advocate, Frankfort, KY, Counsel for Appellant.

Gregory D. Stumbo, Attorney General of Kentucky, Perry T. Ryan, Assistant Attorney General, Frankfort, KY, Counsel for Appellee.

Opinion of the Court by Justice MINTON.

Primarily at issue in this case is whether the common law presumption of youthful incapacity for criminal activity, the so-called infancy defense, survived enactment of the Kentucky Unified Juvenile Code, Kentucky Revised Statutes (KRS) Chapters 600 to 645. Because our juvenile code is comprehensive in scope and rehabilitative in purpose, we conclude that its enactment extinguished the infancy defense in proceedings under the...

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