State ex rel. Coco

CALOGERO, Justice.

We granted writs in this case upon application of an incarcerated juvenile who complains that both the district and the juvenile courts of the Twenty-Fourth Judicial District Court, Parish of Jefferson, have declared that they are without jurisdiction over him, leaving him without a judicial forum to hear his writ of habeas corpus, discovery pleadings, motions for preliminary hearing and motion to suppress a confession. We must determine the court of appropriate jurisdiction, an undertaking which requires us to answer questions of first impression under the 1974 Louisiana…