State v. Deflorio

The Concord District Court (Sullivan, J.) has transferred two questions without ruling: whether a minor charged with a misdemeanor traffic offense may be prosecuted and, upon convic*311tion, incarcerated as an adult under the authority of RSA 169-B:32 (Supp. 1985); and, if so, whether application of the statute in such a case would offend standards of equal protection or result in the imposition of cruel, unusual and disproportionate punishment. We answer that the statute constitutionally authorizes such prosecution and incarceration.

The statutory context in which these questions arise may be…