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IN RE B.W.

No. 08-1044.

313 S.W.3d 818 (2010)

In the Matter of B.W.

Supreme Court of Texas.

June 18, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael A. Choyke, Wright Brown & Close, LLP, Annette Elizabeth Johnson, Johnson Law Firm, P.C., Michelle W. Bush, Attorney at Law, Houston, TX, for Petitioner.

Daniel Clark McCrory, Assistant District Attorney, Terrance Windham, Harris District Attorney's Office, Jessica Macklin Milligan, Harris County District Attorney's Ofc., Patricia Rae Lykos, Harris County District Attorney, Helen Jackson, Houston, TX, for Respondent.

Karen Anne Clark, Children at Risk, Houston, TX, for Amicus Curiae Children at Risk.

Justice O'NEILL delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Chief Justice JEFFERSON, Justice HECHT, Justice MEDINA, Justice GREEN, and Justice GUZMAN joined.

In this case we must decide whether the Legislature, by its wholesale incorporation of Penal Code offenses into the juvenile justice provisions of the Family Code, intended to permit prosecution of a thirteen-year-old child for prostitution considering its specific pronouncement that a child under fourteen is...

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