Commonwealth v. Southerly

This appeal presents a claim stemming from Baker v. Commonwealth, 28 Va. App. 306, 504 S.E.2d 394 (1998), aff’d per curiam, 258 Va. 1, 516 S.E.2d 219 (1999) (failure to give both parents notice of juvenile proceedings renders void juvenile’s subsequent criminal conviction on transfer to circuit court). In this case, the record shows that Nathan Todd Southerly was bom June 29, 1973. During the weeks leading up to his eighteenth birthday, he committed multiple criminal offenses in the City of Harrisonburg.

After Southerly reached the age of eighteen, Harrisonburg police filed a total of…