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E.C. v. VIRGINIA DEPT. OF JUVENILE JUSTICE

Record No. 110523.

722 S.E.2d 827 (2012)

283 Va. 522

E.C. v. VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF JUVENILE JUSTICE.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

March 2, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew L. Engle ( Deirde M. Enright ; Andrew K. Block ; Angela A. Ciolfi ; Jeremy S. Byrum ; McGuire Woods, on briefs), for appellant.

Gregory W. Franklin , Assistant Attorney General ( Kenneth T. Cuccinelli, II , Attorney General, on brief), for appellee.

National Juvenile Defender Center, Mid-Atlantic Juvenile Defender Center, Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth, Families & Allies of Virginia's Youth, Mental Disabilities Clinic, Parents Engaged for Learning Equality, Voices for Virginia's Children, Kristin Henning , Julie McConnell , Wallace J. Mlyniec , and Adrienne E. Volenik ( Nadia Natasha Seeratan ; Adrienne E. Volenik , on brief), amici curiae in support of appellant.

Present: KINSER, C.J., LEMONS, GOODWYN, MILLETTE, and McCLANAHAN, JJ., and CARRICO and LACY, S.JJ.

OPINION BY Senior Justice ELIZABETH B. LACY.

E.C. was released from custody while his petition for a writ of habeas corpus was pending. In this appeal we consider whether the circuit court erred in holding that because the petitioner was no longer in custody, its jurisdiction ended or, alternatively, the case was rendered moot.

BACKGROUND

In June 2007, E.C., then 15 years old, was charged in the Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court of Stafford...

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