Smith v. Joseph G.’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district · 38 state decisions

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1. “The history of Welfare and Institutions Code sections 701, 702, and 706 clearly indicates that the Legislature intended to create a bifurcated juvenile court procedure in which the court would first determine whether the facts of the case would support the jurisdiction of the court in declaring a wardship and thereafter would consider the social study report at a hearing on the appropriate disposition of that ward. This procedure affords a necessary protection against the premature resolution of the jurisdictional issue on the basis of legally incompetent material in the social report.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 18 Cal. App. 3d 782 - In Re DJB

2. “the constitutional safeguard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt is as much required during the adjudicatory stage of a delinquency proceeding as are those constitutional safeguards applied in Gault [ 387 U.S. 1 , 87 S.Ct. 1428 ] — notice of charges, right to counsel, the rights of confrontation and examination, and the privilege against self-incrimination.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 13 Cal. App. 3d 75 - In Re CEM