Legal Opinion
In re Dorothy D.
New York Court of Appeals
Decided January 10, 1980PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Wachtler, J.
The issue in this case is whether the Family Court should have expunged from its records a juvenile delinquency petition brought against a blameless child by a neighbor. We agree with the Appellate Division that, in the circumstances of this case, the court’s failure to do so was an abuse of discretion as a matter of law.
This matter arose when the child’s mother filed a criminal complaint against a neighbor. In response the neighbor charged that the child, then aged 12, was a juvenile delinquent. At the intake level of Family Court, before the juvenile…
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