Legal Opinion
People ex rel. Y.D.M.
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided April 23, 1979No. 28250PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carrigan
The juvenile court adjudicated Y.D.M., the thirteen-year-old appellant,1 to be a child in need of supervision (CHINS)2 based on a jury’s determination that she had violated Colorado’s compulsory school attendance law, section 22-33-104, C.R.S. 1973. We reverse and remand for a new trial.
*406At trial the official attendance records kept by the minor child’s homeroom teacher revealed that Y.D.M. had been absent 55 of 94 schooldays during the first semester of the 1976-77 school year. Reasons for these absences advanced by the child’s mother and the school social worker were illness, failure to…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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- Bain Peanut Co. of Tex. v. PinsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
- People v. RichmondSupreme Court of Colorado · 1891
- City & County of Denver v. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of Colorado · 1919
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- City of Durango v. Durango Transportation, Inc.Supreme Court of Colorado · 1991