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INTEREST OF T.B.

S22A0287.

874 S.E.2d 101 (2022)

In the INTEREST OF T.B., a Child.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: June 1, 2022.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Yolanda Bacharach , Amanda Jones Walker , Eastern Judicial Circuit Office of the Public Defender, 724 E. 36th, Savannah, Georgia 31401, for Appellant.

Randee J. Waldman , Emory University School of Law, Barton Child Law and Policy Center, 1301 Clifton Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, for Amicus Appellant.

Michael Lanier Edwards , Chief A.D.A., Shalena Cook Jones , District Attorney, Eastern Judicial Circuit Office of the District Attorney, Chatham County Courthouse, 133 Montgomery St., Ste. 600, Savannah, Georgia 31401, Nancy Michele Harris , Deputy Chief A.D.A., Brittany Lee Padgett , A.D.A., District Attorney's Office Eastern Judicial Circuit 41 Park of Commerce Drive, Suite 306, Savannah, Georgia 31405, Margaret Ellen Heap , District Attorney, Office of the District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit, P. O. Box 2309, Savannah, Georgia 31402, for Appellee.

Bradford Lee Rigby , District Attorney, Cordele Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, PO Box 5510, Cordele, Georgia 31010, Robert Wright Smith, Jr. , William D. Johnson , A.D.A., Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia, 1590 Adamson Parkway, 4th Floor, Morrow, Georgia 30260, Shannon Glover Wallace , District Attorney, Cherokee County District Attorney's Office, 90 North Street, Suite 390, Canton, Georgia 30114, for Amicus Appellee.

This case requires us to determine whether a child charged with delinquency based on an alleged violation of Georgia's Criminal Code may assert an affirmative defense of insanity or delusional compulsion, under OCGA §§ 16-3-2 or 16-3-3, in a juvenile-court proceeding. The Juvenile Code does not expressly state whether...

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