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ULLA U. v. COMMONWEALTH

SJC-12752.

485 Mass. 219 (2020)

ULLA U., a juvenile v. COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 21, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michelle Menken (Ziyad S. Hopkins, Committee for Public Counsel Services, also present) for the juvenile.

Monica J. DeLateur, Assistant District Attorney (Michelle P. Slade, Assistant District Attorney, also present) for the Commonwealth.

Alison R. Bancroft, for youth advocacy division of the Committee for Public Counsel Services, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

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

We take this opportunity to clarify certain procedural questions that have arisen in connection with the "transfer hearing" in the Juvenile Court afforded juveniles by G. L. c. 119, § 72A. That statute was enacted to close a gap in the statutory scheme as it concerned the treatment of those persons who had reached their nineteenth...

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