State v. BB

Summary

The court held that a youth presumptively eligible for Connecticut's youthful offender docket has a statutory liberty interest in that status, but due process does not require a hearing before the youthful offender court orders transfer. Instead, the governing statute implicitly requires notice and a hearing before the regular criminal docket court before the transfer becomes final, which satisfies due process. The judgment was affirmed because the transfer had not yet been finalized and the defendant remained entitled to that later hearing.