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WALLACE W. v. COMMONWEALTH

SJC-12669.

482 Mass. 789 (2019)

WALLACE W., a juvenile, v. COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

August 9, 2019.

Amended September 30, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter A. Hahn ( Lauren E. Russell , Committee for Public Counsel Services, also present) for the juvenile.

Catherine Langevin Semel , Assistant District Attorney ( Heidi Sylvanowicz , Assistant District Attorney, also present) for the Commonwealth.

K. Hayne Barnwell , for youth advocacy division of the Committee for Public Counsel Services & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: GANTS, C.J., LENK, GAZIANO, LOWY, BUDD, CYPHER, & KAFKER, JJ.

The recent amendment to G. L. c. 119, § 52, excludes from the definition of "[d]elinquent child," and thus from the jurisdiction of the Juvenile Court, children who commit "a first offense of a misdemeanor for which the punishment is a fine, imprisonment in a jail or house of correction...

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