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DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES v. A JUVENILE

398 Mass. 516 (1986)

499 N.E.2d 812

DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES vs. A JUVENILE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

November 4, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas C. Marshall for the juvenile.

Bruce A. Cardello, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, LIACOS, ABRAMS, & LYNCH, JJ.

ABRAMS, J.

The juvenile is in a secure facility (Butler Center) run by the Department of Youth Services (department). Although he is over eighteen, he is in the department's custody because a jury of six determined that if discharged from the department he "would be physically dangerous to the public because of his mental disorder or abnormality." See G.L.c. 120, §§ 16-20 (1984 ed.). The juvenile appeals, alleging that the statutory provisions under which...

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