Legal Opinion
J. B. H. v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided July 2, 1976No. 52213PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Clark, Judge.
"The history of American freedom is, in no small measure, the history of procedure” wrote Justice Felix Frankfurter in Malinski v. N.Y., 324 U.S. 401, 414. That was in 1945, twenty-two years before the 1967 landmark decision of In re Gault, 387 U.S. 1 (87 SC 1428, 18 LE2d 527). Gault changed the judicial treatment of juveniles by ruling that juveniles were entitled to the "essentials of due process and fair treatment” as a matter of constitutional right. Until then, our country’s juvenile courts had applied a parens patriae philosophy from the date of their creation in Chicago in…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Barker v. WingoSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- In Re GAULTSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Malinski v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
- Strunk v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Brown v. Fulton County Department of Family & Children ServicesCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1975
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3Cited by23 opinions
- Sanchez v. Walker County Department of Family & Children ServicesSupreme Court of Georgia · 1976
- In Re Russell C.Supreme Court of New Hampshire · 1980
- In the Interest of R. D. F.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1996
- L. L. S. v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1978
- Washington v. Georgia Baptist Medical CenterCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1996
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