PEOPLE EX REL. WILKINS v. CHINLUND


35 A.D.2d 709 (1970)

The People of the State of New York ex rel. Dorothea Wilkins, Appellant, v. Stephen Chinlund, as Director of Manhattan Rehabilitation Center, Respondent

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

October 20, 1970


Judgment entered October 21, 1968, dismissing the writ of habeas corpus unanimously reversed on the law, without costs and without disbursements, the judgment vacated, the writ sustained and relator directed to be discharged.

Relator's mother petitioned for certification of relator as a narcotics addict. At the time of her appearance in response to such petition relator, a minor of 17 years, was not represented by counsel. While there is little doubt that petitioner...

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