IN RE D.L.H.

No. 350PA09.

694 S.E.2d 753 (2010)

In the Matter of D.L.H.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 17, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy Cooper, Attorney General, by LaToya B. Powell, Assistant Attorney General, for the State-appellant.

Leslie C. Rawls, Charlotte, for juvenile-appellee.


NEWBY, Justice.

The issue in this case is whether the delinquent juvenile D.L.H. is entitled to have her term of confinement reduced by time spent in secure custody pending her dispositional hearings. The General Statutes do not authorize credit for time served before disposition in the juvenile context, and our judiciary may not read into the law provisions that were not included by the legislature. Accordingly, terms of juvenile confinement may not be reduced by...

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