Due Process Rights and Children: Fifty Years of In re Gault – Part Two, the Right to Counsel
Published for On the Civil Side on September 14, 2016.
This post is the second in a series focused on In re Gault, the U.S. Supreme Court case which mandated that the core due process rights applicable to adults in criminal proceedings must also be afforded to juveniles who are alleged to be delinquent. Perhaps the most significant of these rights is the right to counsel.
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