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State v. Berard

Citations

  • 401 A.2d 448
  • 121 R.I. 551
  • 1979 R.I. LEXIS 1870

How courts have described this case

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  • recognizing Family Court may decline jurisdiction as provided by Legislature's automatic waiver
  • upholding statute which allowed the prosecutor, without hearing, discretion to prosecute certain classification of juveniles in adult court
  • upholding the authority of the legislature to exclude certain age groups from the coverage of the juvenile delinquency laws
  • respecting Legislature's ability to determine that certain individuals expected to be less promising prospects for treatments
  • Rhode Island statute that excluded from Family Court jurisdiction certain juveniles based on their charges and record was not unconstitutional for failure to provide due process hearing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Bevilacqua, Joslin, Kelleher, Doris, Weisberger

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