Kentucky Supreme Court May 14, 2015, 2013-SC-000210-DG (Q.M. v. Commonwealth)

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

JUSTICE NOBLE

The policy and processes that make up the juvenile justice system, laid out in Kentucky in the Unified Juvenile Code, have received a great deal of attention on a national level over the last few years once it became widely known that millions of dollars were being spent to incarcerate juvenile offenders indiscriminately, to remove many from their homes for