16.1-269.3 - Retention by juvenile court; appeal. - Virginia Statutes

§ 16.1-269.3. Retention by juvenile court; appeal.

If a case is not transferred following a transfer hearing or is not certifiedfollowing a probable cause hearing, the judge who conducted the hearing shallnot, over the objection of any interested party, preside at the adjudicatoryhearing on the petition, but rather it shall be presided over by anotherjudge of that court. If the attorney for the Commonwealth deems it to be inthe public interest, and the juvenile is fourteen years of age or older hemay, within ten days after the juvenile court's final decision to retain thecase in accordance with subsection A of § 16.1-269.1, file a notice of appealof the decision to the appropriate circuit court. A copy of such notice shallbe furnished at the same time to the counsel for the juvenile.

(1994, cc. 859, 949; 1996, cc. 755, 914.)