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...three-judge court, which sat in New York's Southern District, attacked the delinquency act from two directions. First, the Supreme Court last year in In Re Gault clearly stated that the Bill of Rights is not "for adults alone"; in light of that, the judges were persuaded that the Sixth Amendment trial-by-jury guarantee applies to juveniles in federal courts. They also objected on the basis that the law involves a "rock or whirlpool" choice. "Where a reward is held out to an individual for the waiver of a constitutional right," wrote Judge Harold Tyler...
...than not, the judge can order him sent to a training school. The reason : juvenile courts were originally conceived as places where children would be helped, not punished. But the practice has not lived up to the theory. Now, in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's Gault decision enlarging the constitutional rights of juveniles (TIME, May 26), the Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that a juvenile must be proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, just like anyone else...
...greatest scientific achievements of the civilization of man," exulted NASA Planetologist Donald Gault last week. By means of the Surveyor 5 spacecraft, man had reached across a void of some 240,000 miles, studied the surface of the moon, and analyzed its chemical composition. That analysis, scientists reported last week, indicated that part of the lunar surface is strikingly similar to the earth...
...four-week summer college that winds up this week at the University of Colorado. Conducted by the National Council of Juvenile Court Judges, the school is designed to help the jurists learn criminal-law procedure and adjust to the Supreme Court's recent decision In the Matter of Gault, which gives juveniles many of the same constitutional safeguards that adults enjoy. Because of the decision and recommendations by the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice, juveniles are emerging from legal limbo. For years they were handled under a system that was supposed to treat...
Poor Substitute. The case in point, In the Matter of Gault, concerned a young Arizona boy, Gerald Gault, who three years ago was accused of telephoning a neighboring housewife and making what the court called "remarks or questions of the irritatingly offensive, adolescent, sex variety." The woman who claimed to have been called never appeared at any hearing. Neither Gerald nor his parents were advised of any right to counsel or of his right to keep silent. They had little or no advance notice of the charges against him. No transcript was kept of the proceedings, and no appeal...