State v. M.C.

PATRICIA RIVET MURRAY, Judge.

_JjThis criminal appeal presents an issue of statutory construction: whether La. Ch.C. art. 305(E) precluded the State from obtaining an indictment charging M.C.,1 a sixteen-year old juvenile, with armed robbery, an enumerated offense under La. Ch.C. art. 305(B), after the juvenile court *1265ordered a competency hearing and found the juvenile was not competent to proceed. Answering the question in the affirmative, we affirm the district court’s decision quashing the indictment for lack of jurisdiction.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

M.C. is alleged to have committed…