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STATE EX REL. P.M.P.

A-63 September Term 2008

975 A.2d 441 (2009)

200 N.J. 166

STATE of New Jersey in the Interest of P.M.P.

Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided July 29, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Amira R. Scurato, Assistant Deputy Public Defender, argued the cause for appellant P.M.P. (Yvonne Smith Segars, Public Defender, attorney).

Daniel I. Bornstein, Deputy Attorney General, argued the cause for respondent State of New Jersey (Anne Milgram, Attorney General of New Jersey, attorney; Mr. Bornstein and J. Vincent Molitor, Assistant Cape May County Prosecutor, on the briefs).

Christopher D. Adams, Roseland, submitted a brief on behalf of amicus curiae Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey (Walder, Hayden & Brogan, attorneys; Mr. Adams and Leigh-Anne Mulrey, of counsel).

Laura A. Cohen submitted a brief on behalf of amici curiae Rutgers Urban Legal Clinic Rutgers School of Law-Newark, National Juvenile Defender Center, American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, Children's Justice Center Rutgers School of Law-Camden, and Northeast Juvenile Defender Center (Urban Legal Clinic Rutgers School of Law-Newark, attorneys).

Justice WALLACE, JR., delivered the opinion of the Court.

In this case, a detective in the Prosecutor's Office prepared a juvenile delinquency complaint against a twenty-year-old defendant for unlawful conduct he allegedly committed as a teenager. After signing the complaint, the detective and an assistant prosecutor appeared before a Family Part judge to request an arrest warrant. The judge issued the warrant and suggested that the State return with defendant at...

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