State ex rel. M. S.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Kolovsky, P. J. A. D.

All four of the above appeals, consolidated for argument, involve the same principal issue. May a juvenile, who has been taken into custody on a charge that he or she is a juvenile in need of supervision and placed, by order entered following a shelter care hearing (N. J. S. A. 2A:4-58) by a judge of the Juvenile and Domestic Eelations Court (Juvenile Court), in a shelter care facility pending final disposition, be charged as and adjudicated a *505juvenile delinquent for leaving the shelter without permission? The Juvenile Court judge…