In Re Jan Carlos D.

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• declining to review respondent's unpreserved claim of constitutional due process violation because Golding review not requested
• applying canon that specific terms in statute prevail over general language in same or another statute in determining which of two criminal statutes applied to arrest of juveniles
• “[a] statute is ambiguous if, when read in context, it is susceptible to more than one reasonable interpretation”
• use of § 54-56d competency protocol for children is “consistent with the goals of the juvenile system as set forth in General Statutes § 46b-121h”
• speedy information provision under General Statutes § 54-1f [a] not applicable to juvenile summons and complaint
• “[i]tis a well established principle of statutory construction that specific terms in a statute covering a given subject matter will prevail over the more general language of the same or another statute that otherwise might be controlling” [internal quotation marks omitted]

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