Case ID: nj_63/html/0592-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE OF NEW JERSEY IN THE INTEREST OF E. L.
    Argued June 5, 1973
    Decided June 7, 1973.
    
      Mr. Mellville D. Miller, Jr., Administrator, Middlesex County Legal Services, argued the cause for appellant.
    
      Mr. W. Richard Vertch, Assistant Prosecutor argued the cause for respondent (Mr. John S. Kuhlthau, Middlesex County Prosecutor, attorney).
   Per Curiam.

A petition for certification having been submitted to this Court, and the Court having considered the same,

It is hereupon Ordered that the petition for certification is granted (63 N. J. 424) and it is Ordered that the evidence being insufficient to warrant a conviction, the judgments of the Appellate Division and of the trial court are reversed with direction to the trial court to dismiss proceedings against juvenile.

For reversal — Chief Justice Weinteaub, Justices Jacobs, Proctor, Hall, Mountain, Sullivan and Garven — 7.

Opposed — None.