State v. Berard

The defendant was charged in the Family Court with five delinquency petitions arising out of allegations that he had conveyed hypodermic needles, a syringe and certain controlled substances into the Adult Correctional Institutions. The Family Court determined that it did not have jurisdiction because G.L. 1956 (1969 Reenactment) §14-1-7.1 excludes from the jurisdiction of the Family Court a juvenile defendant over the age of 16 who is charged with conduct amounting to one or more felonies when he has committed two prior offenses which would have constituted felonies had he been an adult.…