State v. JOEY F.

CARTER, Justice.

Following a juvenile adjudicatory hearing, the District Court in Newport, sitting as the Juvenile Court, found that the accused juvenile had committed the juvenile offense of rape. The juvenile’s appeal to the Superior Court, Penobscot County, was denied. On appeal to the Law Court, the juvenile argues that: 1) certain evidentiary rulings made by the Juvenile Court during both the adjudicatory hearing and the dis-positional hearing were in error, and 2) the Juvenile Court judge erred in committing the juvenile, who had reached the age of 18 in the midst of proceedings in…