No. 2003-CK-2754 Precedential Processed

State ex rel D.W.

Louisiana Supreme Court · Filed January 30, 2004 · 865 So. 2d 45

Also decided on this docket: La., November 5, 2003 857 So. 2d 489

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State ex rel. L.R.S. 877 So. 2d 1040 La. Ct. App. 2d Cir. 2004

Opinion text

11VICTORY, J., concurring. I respectfully concur. In my view, Article 879 of the Louisiana Children’s Code is not applicable to this non-adjudication hearing because it is limited by both its title (Adjudication) and its text (both sections A and B use the term “adjudication”) to adjudication hearings. Nonetheless, the last sentence of Article 407(a) controls and *49 requires that the instant hearing, if properly before the juvenile court, be open to the public.