State of Connecticut v. Nathaniel S.

Summary

The court held that the 2015 amendment raising the age for automatic transfer of certain juvenile felony cases from fourteen to fifteen applies retroactively to pending cases. The amendment is procedural because it changes the method and forum of adjudication rather than creating or regulating substantive rights, so it is presumptively retroactive and nothing in the statute or considerations of good sense and justice rebuts that presumption.