Legal Opinion
Breed v. Jones
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 27, 1975No. 73-1995PublishedCited by 1,075 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Burger
We granted certiorari to decide whether the prosecution of respondent as an adult, after Juvenile Court proceedings, which resulted in a finding that respondent had violated a criminal statute and a subsequent finding that he was unfit for treatment as a juvenile, violated the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.
On February 9, 1971, a petition was filed in the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, Juvenile Court, alleging that respondent, then 17 years of age, was a person described by Cal. Welf. & Inst’ns Code § 602 (1966), 1 in that, on or about…
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