S.G.W. v. People

QUINN, Chief Justice.

The question presented in this case is whether the Colorado Children’s Code authorizes a juvenile court to commit a “repeat-juvenile offender” who is also a “mandatory sentence offender” to the Department of Institutions (department) for a two-year term consecutive to a two-year commitment imposed in a separate delinquency adjudication. 1 The court of appeals upheld the consecutive commitment imposed by the juvenile court, and we granted S.G.W.’s petition for certiorari. We now reverse the judgment and remand the case for further proceedings.

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S.G.W., who was seventeen…