Today the Supreme Court issued State v. Doe holding that under I.C. 20-507 juvenile court jurisdiction terminates no later than the juvenile's 21st birthday. In this case, Doe was on probation for a battery committed while he was a juvenile. A month before his 21st birthday, he admitted a PV to his probation officer. Nine days later, the state filed a petition. However, the admit/deny hearing was not held until 16 days after Doe's birthday. The Supreme Court determined that by virtue of I.C. 20-507 the juvenile court jurisdiction ended on Doe's 21st birthday and the petition must be dismissed even though that means that Doe's PV will go unpunished.
I guess we can anticipate that the state will soon be lobbying for an amendment to I.C. 20-507 to avoid this sort of outcome in the future.
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Congratulations to Gene Alexander of the Ada Co. Public Defenders.
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