IN THE MATTER OF A MINOR

SJC-12747.

484 Mass. 295 (2020)

IN THE MATTER OF A MINOR.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

March 17, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eva G. Jellison for the juvenile.

Maura Healey , Attorney General, & Jesse M. Boodoo , Assistant Attorney General, for the Attorney General, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Karen Owen Talley & Afton M. Templin , Committee for Public Counsel Services, for Committee for Public Counsel Services & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: GANTS, C.J., GAZIANO, LOWY, BUDD, CYPHER, & KAFKER, JJ.


In this case, a sixteen year old high school student (juvenile) claims error in a Juvenile Court judge's decision to commit him for substance use disorder treatment pursuant to G. L. c. 123, § 35. His case requires us to decide whether and how the science of adolescent brain development...

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