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NOAH N. v. COMMONWEALTH

SJC-13200.

489 Mass. 498 (2022)

NOAH N., a juvenile v. COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

April 11, 2022.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Caroline I. Alpert for the juvenile.

Brooke Hartley , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Sarah Spofford , Committee for Public Counsel Services for youth advocacy division of the Committee for Public Counsel Services & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: Budd, C.J., Gaziano, Lowy, Cypher, Kafker, Wendlandt, & Georges, JJ.

The issue before the court is under what circumstances, if any, a judge presiding over a juvenile delinquency proceeding may grant a continuance sought by the Commonwealth for the express purpose of delaying resolution of the case past the juvenile's eighteenth birthday. The age of a juvenile on the date of his or her case's disposition...

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