Court Opinion

ID: 9457575
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 20:26:05.984928+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:35:24.629066
License: Public Domain

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING
PER CURIAM:
By petition for rehearing, Appellant objects to our reference, in footnote 3 of the opinion, to 18 U.S.C.A. § 5032, which was not enacted until June 25, 1948 nearly two years after his adjudication of delinquency under the then effective Federal Juvenile Delinquency Act, 18 U.S.C.A. § 922 (1940 ed.), 52 Stat. 765, c. 486, § 2. The import of footnote 3 was not to suggest that this was the provision under which petitioner was proceeded against, but only to indicate the statutory difference between criminal conviction and juvenile delinquency adjudication. Interestingly, the statute in effect in 1946 contained substantially identical language to § 5032: “[S]uch person shall be prosecuted by information on the charge of juvenile delinquency, and no prosecution shall be instituted for the specific offense alleged to have been committed by him.”
The other point raised in the petition for rehearing is the assertion that our result is inconsistent with Sibron v. New York, 1968, 392 U.S. 40, 88 S.Ct. 1889, 20 L.Ed.2d 917. The argument is that having conceded the hypothetical possibility of adverse collateral legal consequences of a juvenile delinquency adjudication in the opinion, we are obliged to grant relief on the basis of the Sibron holding that that possibility is “enough to preserve a criminal case from ending ‘ignominiously in the limbo of mootness.’ ” This argument, too, misperceives the point of the opinion. We recognize that the case may not be moot, but that fact alone is not enough to justify issuance of an extraordinary writ of coram nobis. To show himself entitled to that relief, petitioner must demonstrate that such relief is required by the manifest interests of justice. United States v. Morgan, supra. This he has failed to do.
The inadvertent reference to a “State Trial Court” in the slip opinion had been previously corrected by changing that phrase to “Juvenile Court.”
The petition for rehearing must be denied.