Metcalf v. Commonwealth

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• legislative purposes of G. L. c. 119, §§ 52-63, are to correct and redeem delinquent children
• “distinction our law recognizes between child and adult adjudication exists partly to avoid ... the attachment of criminal stigma to children who may be amenable to rehabilitation”

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