Delinquency – Adult court

By: Derek Hawkins//January 25, 2017//

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WI Court of Appeals – District II

Case Name: State of Wisconsin v. C.M.

Case No.: 2016AP1321

Officials: Reilly, P.J.

Focus: Delinquency – Adult court

C.M. challenges his waiver into adult court on the grounds that the court erroneously exercised its discretion by considering Lincoln Hills School for Boys to be categorically unsuitable for placement of juveniles and that C.M. would be safer in the adult system. We affirm as the court’s comments regarding Lincoln Hills were not the determining factor in its waiver decision.

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