Legal Opinion
IN RE Q.B. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided June 11, 2015No. 14-FS-645PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BECKWITH, Associate Judge:
The District of Columbia appeals from the trial court’s dismissal of a delinquency petition charging seventeen-year-old Q.B. with contempt under D.C.Code § 11-944 (2012 Repl.) for violating a 7 p.m. curfew that was one of several conditions of his pretrial release. Applying this court’s decision in In re (Anthony) Jones, 51 A.3d 1290 (D.C.2012), the trial court ruled that the pretrial release order contained no “free-standing requirement” to obey the conditions of release and that the petition did not charge an offense under the contempt statute. We agree, and we…
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