Welfare of MDA v. State

Two petitions, considered together, for a writ of prohibition restraining the Hennepin County District Court, Juvenile Division, from the issuance of orders restricting and impairing the exercise of the powers, duties, and discretion of the commissioner of corrections with regard to the disposition of minors'adjudicated delinquent and committed to the care and custody of the commissioner. Writ shall issue.

A petition was filed on February 14, 1975, in the Hennepin County District Court, Juvenile Division, alleging that the juvenile, M. D. A., a petitioner in this matter, had committed four…