Court Opinion

ID: 9861850
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 00:48:46.141563+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:29:31.943566
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Opinion Concurring in Result
Arterburn, C.J.
I concur in the principles enunciated in the majority opinion as to waiver of the right against self-incrimination and other constitutional rights as they apply to juveniles in criminal cases. I do not agree that they should be extended to cover juvenile proceedings, as might be drawn from the majority opinion. Juvenile procedure is not considered to be criminal in nature. The objective of the juvenile proceeding is informality for the purpose of rehabilitation and *441reform. If we give the juvenile process all of the characteristics of a criminal trial, including the constitutional privleges of a crminal defendant, we undermine the whole purpose and object of juvenile proceedings. If we do that, we might just as well do away with juvenile proceedings and try all juveniles in the criminal courts where we have the apparatus and procedures sufficiently refined to protect their constitutional privileges.
Our Court, after In Re Gault (1967), 387 U.S. 1, 87 S. Ct. 1428, 18 L. Ed. 2d 527, is unconsciously drifting to the point where juvenile proceedings will have all the characteristics of criminal trials, and we will have lost all the benefits accruing from the non-criminal juvenile process.
Givan, J., concurs.
Note.—Reported in 288 N. E. 2d 138.