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RIVAS v. COM.

Record No. 0655-07-4.

659 S.E.2d 524 (2008)

51 Va. App. 507

Alexander RIVAS v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Court of Appeals of Virginia, Alexandria.

April 15, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bradley R. Haywood, Assistant Public Defender (Office of the Public Defender, on brief), for appellant.

Benjamin H. Katz, Assistant Attorney General (Robert F. McDonnell, Attorney General, on brief), for appellee.

Present: ELDER, FRANK and MILLETTE, JJ.

ELDER, Judge.

Alexander Rivas (appellant), a juvenile, appeals from a circuit court order finding him in violation of the conditions of his probation for an offense that would have been punishable as a felony if committed by an adult. On appeal, he contends the court lacked authority at the violation hearing to order him committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice because it had not exercised that authority at the original dispositional hearing, having opted instead...

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