Commonwealth v. M.G.

OPINION

HUDDLESTON, Judge.

The Commonwealth appeals from a Warren Circuit Court opinion and order reversing a juvenile adjudication and disposition in which Warren District Court found that M.G. had committed first-degree sexual abuse and ordered him into the custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) for placement in a secure residential treatment facility for juvenile sexual offenders. Finding that the district court deprived M.G. of his constitutional right to confrontation by ejecting him from the courtroom during the testimony of his alleged victim and that the procedure…