Legal Opinion
In re Samuel W.
New York Court of Appeals
Decided March 6, 1969PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBergan, J.
A main objective of the special system of law. for treating young juvenile offenders is to hold them as children apart from the usual methods and ineradicable consequences of the criminal law. This court in People v. Lewis (260 N. Y. 171) expressed, in 1932, the hope and the purpose of the framers of the early New York juvenile delinquency statutes, beginning with the Children’s Court Act in 1922, that the proceedings were not designed to be punitive but were for the protection and training of a child found in difficulty; and would be administered by humane and parentally minded Judges whose…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- In Re GAULTSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Kent v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- People v. UrbasekIllinois Supreme Court · 1967
- People v. LewisNew York Court of Appeals · 1932
- United States v. August CostanzoCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1968
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3Cited by27 opinions
- In Re WINSHIPSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Hughes v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 2005
- State v. SantanaTexas Supreme Court · 1969
- People ex rel. Wayburn v. SchupfNew York Court of Appeals · 1976
- In re Quinton A.New York Court of Appeals · 1980
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