Q.M. v. COMMONWEALTH

2013-SC-000210-DG.

459 S.W.3d 360 (2015)

Q.M., a Child Under Eighteen, Appellant v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

RENDERED: MAY 14, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Renee Sara Vandenwallbake , Assistant Public Advocate, Department of Public Advocacy, 100 Fair Oaks Lane, Suite 302, Frankfort, Kentucky 40601, for Appellant.

Jack Conway , Attorney General, Patricia Lynn Pryor , Commonwealth Attorney, Courthouse Annex, 2nd Floor, 511 South Main Street, Hopkinsville, Kentucky 42240, Jeanne Deborah Anderson , Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Office of Criminal Appeals, 1024 Capital Center Drive, Frankfort, Kentucky 40601-8204, for Appellee.


OPINION OF THE COURT BY JUSTICE NOBLE

The policy and processes that make up the juvenile justice system, laid out in Kentucky in the Unified Juvenile Code, have received a great deal of attention on a national level over the last few years once it became widely known that millions of dollars were being spent to incarcerate juvenile offenders indiscriminately, to remove many from their homes for minor offenses, and to do this with very little due process...

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