In re Craig P.

OPINION

WEISBERGER, Chief Justice.

This case comes to us on a petition for certiorari filed by the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) to review a judgment of the Family Court requiring DCYF to develop and implement a treatment and rehabilitation plan for Craig P. (respondent). We grant the petition for certiorari and quash the order of the Family Court. The facts insofar as relevant to this petition are as follows.

On September 21, 1989, respondent, who was then aged fifteen, admitted to four counts of first-degree murder and two counts of burglary. He was committed…