Legal Opinion
In re L.J.
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided August 18, 1988No. 88-151PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SCHWELB, Associate Judge:
Respondent LJ. was fifteen and a half years old in mid-June 1987 when, at or about 3:00 a.m., assisted by an 18 year old confederate, A.P.G., he fired an UZI automatic weapon at an automobile occupied by two men with whom he had quarreled, leaving seventeen bullet holes in the vehicle. In this unusual appeal, LJ. claims that the trial judge “abused his discretion” in not lifting a court-imposed restriction on his release from the Children’s Center after he had been confined there for about half a year. We do not believe that this court, as an appellate tribunal, has…
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- Kent v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
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