In re Teheran KK.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
— Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Tompkins County (Barrett, J.), entered May 13, 1992, which dismissed petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 7, to adjudicate respondent a juvenile delinquent.
A juvenile delinquency petition and its supporting depositions must contain "non-hearsay allegations * * * establishing if true], every element of each crime charged and the respondent’s commission thereof’. A petition that does not contain such factual allegations is legally insufficient and jurisdictionally defective (see, Matter of Detrece H., 78…
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