Case Name: In the Matter of M. W. F. On Certification from the Superior Court of the District of Columbia
Court: District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: District of Columbia
Decision Date: 1973-11-28
Citations: 312 A.2d 302
Docket Number: No. 7716
Parties: In the Matter of M. W. F. On Certification from the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
Judges: Before FICKLING, PAIR and HARRIS, Associate Judges.
Reporter: West's Atlantic Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 312
Pages: 302–304

Head Matter:
In the Matter of M. W. F. On Certification from the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
No. 7716.
District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
Argued Sept. 24, 1973.
Decided Nov. 28, 1973.
Leo N. Gorman, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., with whom C. Francis Murphy, Corp. Counsel, and Richard W. Barton, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., were on the memorandum, for appellant.
Warren C. Nighswander, Washington, D. C., for appellee.
Joseph B. Valder, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Harold H. Titus, Jr., U. S. Atty., and John A. Terry, Asst. U. S. Atty., were on the memorandum of the United States of America as amicus curiae.
Before FICKLING, PAIR and HARRIS, Associate Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
This cause came on for consideration on the certification of a judge of the Superior Court on the question of prosecutorial authority. Upon review of the memoranda of counsel and consideration of the oral argument, and it appearing to the court that M.W.F. is a juvenile charged with an act of delinquency within the purview of D.C.Code 1973, § 16-2301(7), the court is of the opinion that such juvenile is not involved in a criminal prosecution, D.C.Code 1973, § 16-2318; Pee v. United States, 107 U.S.App.D.C. 47, 274 F.2d 556 (1959), and that, for this reason, the question certified by the trial judge is not one properly certi fiable pursuant, to D.C.Code 1973, § 23-101(f).
Wherefore it is ordered that the certificate be, and hereby is, dismissed.