S. A. S. v. District Court, in & for the County of Jefferson

QUINN, Justice.

The petitioner-juvenile, S.A.S. (petitioner), filed this original proceeding seeking an order prohibiting the respondent court from granting the district attorney’s request for a jury trial in connection with an adjudicatory hearing on a petition in delinquency. The claim for prohibitory relief asserts that the action of respondent court denied the petitioner his constitutional right to a court trial, contravened the provisions of the Children’s Code by permitting the state to demand a jury trial as an interested party, and constituted an abuse of discretion because of the…