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IN RE CUSTODY OF A MINOR

No. 13797.

250 F.2d 419 (1957)

In re CUSTODY OF A MINOR.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided December 5, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Albert J. Ahern, Jr., Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. James J. Laughlin, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Messrs. Richard W. Barton and Andrew G. Conlyn, Asst. Corp. Counsel for the District of Columbia, with whom Messrs. Chester H. Gray, Corp. Counsel, Milton D. Korman, Principal Asst. Corp. Counsel, and Hubert B. Pair, Asst. Corp. Counsel, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before EDGERTON, Chief Judge, and PRETTYMAN and BURGER, Circuit Judges.

BURGER, Circuit Judge.

The primary question on appeal from denial of habeas corpus is whether a minor has a right to counsel in a proceeding in which his parents are charged with inadequate care of the minor, and which charge if true would lead to removal of the minor from the custody of his parents.

In September 1951, the boy's mother (the father being in jail) was summoned to Juvenile Court to answer a charge that the boy was "without adequate parental care...

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