COMMONWEALTH v. VINCE V.

SJC-13566.

245 N.E.3d 726 (2024)

495 Mass. 96

COMMONWEALTH v. VINCE V., a juvenile.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

Decided November 22, 2024.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian J. Anderson, Norcross, for the juvenile.

Kristen W. Jiang, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Caroline Alpert, for youth advocacy division of the Committee for Public Counsel Services & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

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


As we have previously explained in a trilogy of cases,1 G. L. c. 119, § 52, expressly excludes from the definition of "[d]elinquent child," and thus from the subject matter jurisdiction of the Juvenile Court, children who commit "a first offense of a misdemeanor for which the punishment is a fine, imprisonment...

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