State v. J.P.W.

These three consolidated appeals are brought by the state from orders in the respective trial courts discharging juveniles for various violations of the time constraints placed on juvenile proceedings by rule or statute (comparable to the speedy trial rule and for simplicity we will refer to these violations using the terminology speedy trial). Each of the cases involves two issues, the first of which is whether the particular juvenile was properly discharged under the applicable time constraint. Remarkably, in all three cases the juveniles now concede that discharge was improper under the…