D.W.B. v. State

CALLOW, WILLIAM G., J.

This is a review of a decision of the court of appeals, In Interest of D. W.B., 152 Wis. 2d 395, 448 N.W.2d 302 (Ct. App. 1989), which reversed an order of the juvenile court of Waukesha county, Judge Kathryn W. Foster. The juvenile court dismissed without prejudice a delinquency petition and an accompanying petition for waiver of juvenile court jurisdiction. The juvenile court granted the State's motion to dismiss the delinquency petition on the ground that, since the child (D.W.B.) had not appeared in juvenile court prior, to reaching age eighteen, D.W.B. was not…