                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

RETENTION BY JUVENILE COURT; APPEAL (§ 16.1-269.3)

If a case is not transferred following a transfer hearing or is not certified
following a probable cause hearing, the judge who conducted the hearing shall
not, over the objection of any interested party, preside at the adjudicatory
hearing on the petition, but rather it shall be presided over by another judge
of that court. If the attorney for the Commonwealth deems it to be in the public
interest, and the juvenile is fourteen years of age or older he may, within ten
days after the juvenile court&#8217;s final decision to retain the case in
accordance with subsection A of § 16.1-269.1, file a notice of appeal of the
decision to the appropriate circuit court. A copy of such notice shall be
furnished at the same time to the counsel for the juvenile.

HISTORY: 1994, cc. 859, 949; 1996, cc. 755, 914.