COMMONWEALTH v. YASIR Y.

SJC-13496.

238 N.E.3d 750 (2024)

494 Mass. 432

COMMONWEALTH v. YASIR Y., a juvenile.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

Decided August 5, 2024.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Suzanne Renaud for the juvenile.

Karen A. Palumbo, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

John P. Warren, for youth advocacy division of the Committee for Public Counsel Services & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: Budd, C.J., Gaziano, Kafker, Wendlandt, & Georges, JJ.


This case presents two questions: first, whether the juvenile's sentence in this case was a lawful one, and second, whether the Appellate Division of the Superior Court (Appellate Division) was authorized to hear the appeal of the juvenile, as a youthful offender, from an adult sentence to State prison imposed by the Juvenile Court pursuant...

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