State v. V.H. (Majority, with Dissenting)
Annotate this CaseIn 2003, the county prosecutor filed a delinquency petition against Appellee, who was sixteen years old at the time. Appellee later pled no contest to the charge of sexual assault in the second degree, and the circuit court entered an order adjudicating Appellee delinquent. After Appellee was released from the custody of youth services, the circuit court ordered Appellee to register as a moderate-risk sex offender. Two years later, Appellant unsuccessfully filed a petition requesting that his name be removed from the sex-offender registry. After Appellee had turned twenty-one, he filed a petition again requesting that he no longer be required to register as a sex offender or that his name appear on the registry. The State filed a motion to dismiss, arguing, inter alia, that the circuit court lacked jurisdiction to consider Appellee's petition because he was no longer a juvenile. The circuit court released Appellee of his requirement to register and removed his name from the sex-offender registry. The State appealed. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that the State's arguments on appeal lacked merit.
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