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MATTER OF SAMUEL W.

24 N.Y.2d 196 (1969)

In the Matter of Samuel W., Appellant; Family Court of the State of New York, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided March 6, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rena K. Uviller and Charles Schinitsky for appellant.

J. Lee Rankin, Corporation Counsel (Raymond S. Hack and Stanley Buchsbaum of counsel), for respondent.

Judges SCILEPPI, BREITEL and JASEN concur with Judge BERGAN; Chief Judge FULD dissents and votes to reverse in a separate opinion in which Judges BURKE and KEATING concur.

BERGAN, J.

A main objective of the special system of law for treating young juvenile offenders is to hold them as children apart from the usual methods and ineradicable consequences of the criminal law. This court in People v. Lewis (260 N.Y. 171) expressed, in 1932, the hope and the purpose of the framers of the early New York juvenile delinquency statutes, beginning with the Children's Court Act in 1922...

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