Joseph W. v. Wyse

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION.

Seeking relief from alleged illegal detention and bail orders entered by the Juvenile Court, Joseph W. filed a petition for a common law writ of habeas corpus. After a hearing, the Superior Court, Cumberland County, dismissed the petition. Assuming without deciding that Joseph could invoke common law habeas corpus jurisdiction rather than a statutory appeal,1 we must nevertheless affirm the denial of relief. Prior to the hearing on the habeas corpus petition, Joseph W. was adjudicated to have committed a juvenile offense.2 The Superi- or Court properly determined that…