State v. Ann Marie C.’s Empirical Analysis

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20 state decisions

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1. “This totality of the circumstances approach is adequate to determine whether there has been a waiver even where interrogation of juveniles is involved. We discern no persuasive reasons why any other approach is required where the question is whether a juvenile has waived his rights, as opposed to whether an adult had done so. The totality approach permits — indeed, it mandates — inquiry into all the circumstances surrounding the interrogation. This includes evaluation of the juvenile’s age, experience, education, background, and intelligence, and into whether he had the capacity to understand the warnings given him, the nature of his Fifth Amendment rights, and the consequences of waiving those rights.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. NICHOLAS S.

2. “Decisions of the Superior Court on appeal from the . Juvenile Court, as to matters described in section 3402, subsection 1, paragraph A only, may be appealed to the Law Court by an aggrieved party. An appeal by the state under this paragraph shall be subject to section 2115-A, subsections 5 and 8.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. MICHAEL Z.