State Ex Rel. Billy Ray C. v. Skaff

MILLER, Justice:

In this original mandamus action, the relator, Billy Ray C., Jr., 1 a seventeen-year-old juvenile, contends that two of the respondents, the Major General Joseph J. Skaff, Secretary of the West Virginia Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety (Secretary), and Colonel Thomas L. Kirk, Superintendent of the Division of Public Safety (Superintendent), violated his constitutional rights under Section 10 of Article III (due process) and Section 17 of Article III (open courts) of the West Virginia Constitution, by failing to provide the relator an opportunity to be heard in…