D.R.T. v. Commonwealth of Kentucky

OPINION

GUDGEL, Judge.

These cases are before us on discretionary review from orders entered by the Taylor and Marion Circuit Courts. In each case, the circuit court affirmed the juvenile court’s order directing that a person who turned eighteen years of age after having committed a public offense could subsequently, during a juvenile dispositional hearing, be sentenced to serve time in an adult detention facility. For the reasons stated hereafter, we are constrained to reverse and remand for resentencing.

In Appeal No. 2001-CA-0000127-DG, eleven days before his eighteenth birthday D.R.T. pled…