State v. B. Y.

Summary

The court held that a juvenile court may impose a new commitment to the Oregon Youth Authority consecutively to an existing commitment when the youth commits an additional offense while already in custody. The court concluded that the juvenile code's text, statutory context, and legislative history give juvenile courts broad dispositional authority subject to express durational limits, and that the case remained reviewable despite becoming moot. The lower appellate decision and circuit-court judgment were affirmed in part and reversed in part.