ULLA U. v. COMMONWEALTH

SJC-12752.

485 Mass. 219 (2020)

ULLA U., a juvenile v. COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 21, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michelle Menken ( Ziyad S. Hopkins , Committee for Public Counsel Services, also present) for the juvenile.

Monica J. DeLateur , Assistant District Attorney ( Michelle P. Slade , Assistant District Attorney, also present) for the Commonwealth.

Alison R. Bancroft , for youth advocacy division of the Committee for Public Counsel Services, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

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


We take this opportunity to clarify certain procedural questions that have arisen in connection with the "transfer hearing" in the Juvenile Court afforded juveniles by G. L. c. 119, § 72A. That statute was enacted to close a gap in the statutory scheme as it concerned the treatment of those persons who had reached their nineteenth...

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