Dean v. Children's Services Division Juvenile Corrections Program

Petitioner seeks review of an administrative proceeding before the Revoking Authority of MacLaren Training School, a division of Children’s Services Division (CSD), and reversal of CSD’s order revoking petitioner’s parole. The sole error assigned is CSD’s failure to appoint counsel at state expense to represent petitioner at the parole revocation hearing.

CSD moved to dismiss the appeal as moot1 and as barred by res judicata. We denied the motion with leave to raise the questions again in respondent’s brief and at oral argument. Although the question is not moot, see n 1, supra, we conclude…