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State ex rel. K. W. v. Werner

West Virginia Supreme Court

Decided January 31, 1978No. Nos. 14002, 14003, 14051, 14052PublishedCited by 30 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Harshbarger, Justice:

These petitions ask us to decide whether incarceration of male juvenile criminal offenders in the West Virginia Industrial School for Boys (known as “Pruntytown”) violates their rights afforded by the federal constitution’s Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments and by Article 3, Sections 5 and 10 of the West Virginia Constitution.1 No issue is presented about adjudicatory processes by which petitioners were committed to the institution. The cases are here on petitions for habeas corpus and mandamus addressed to our original jurisdiction and the record consists of the…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Trop v. DullesSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
  2. Weems v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1910
  3. State Ex Rel . Harris v. CalendineWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1977
  4. New York State Ass'n for Retarded Children, Inc. v. RockefellerDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1973
  5. Nelson v. HeyneCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1974

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3Cited by30 opinions

  1. Wanstreet v. BordenkircherWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1981
  2. State v. VanceWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1980
  3. State v. AllenWest Virginia Supreme Court · 2000
  4. State v. WallaceWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1999
  5. State Ex Rel. D. D. H. v. DostertWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1980

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