D.C. v. State

DAVID, Justice.

At a dispositional hearing, the juvenile court imposed on the delinquent child a determinate commitment of two years at the Department of Correction to be followed by an indeterminate commitment. We hold that the determinate and indeterminate commitment statutes in question are unambiguously mutually exclusive, and thus the trial court could impose only one of the commitments on the delinquent child. We reverse the trial court’s disposi-tional order and remand to the trial court to decide, in its discretion, which type of commitment is appropriate.

Facts and Procedural History

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