Robert C. v. Baird

This is an appeal from the denial by the Superior Court (Groff, J.) of a petition for writ of habeas corpus. The petitioner claims that after his eighteenth birthday, having been found delinquent prior to his seventeenth birthday, the Keene District Court lacked jurisdiction to adjudicate a complaint charging him with a violation of the terms of his probation. We held in the petitioner’s favor on May 28, 1987, when we issued an order vacating the superior court’s dismissal of the petition and remanding the case for entry of an order providing for the petitioner’s immediate release from…