People v. Velella

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, where the trial court dismissed all charges against the defendant for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, the order was final
• stating that an order dismissing for lack of jurisdiction “serves to put the litigants out of court, thus making the order final.”
• reversing dismissal of charges against adult for offenses committed as a child where the appellant was responsible for the delay due to his “deliberate avoidance of the justice system”
• reversing dismissal of charges against adult for offenses committed as a child where the appellant was responsible for the delay due to his “deliberate avoidance of the justice system”
• defendant tried as adult where his age at date of arrest was beyond Juvenile Act’s jurisdictional definition of child
• defendant denied himself opportunity to be tried by juvenile court system by fleeing prosecution until the age of majority; thus, trial court had subject matter jurisdiction over him

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).