MATTER OF LAWRENCE S.


29 N.Y.2d 206 (1971)

In the Matter of Lawrence S., a Person Alleged to be a Juvenile Delinquent, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided October 21, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rena K. Uviller, Charles Schinitsky and William E. Hellerstein for appellant.

J. Lee Rankin, Corporation Counsel, (Jesse J. Fine and Stanley Buchsbaum of counsel), for respondent.

Judges BURKE, SCILEPPI, BERGAN, BREITEL, JASEN and GIBSON concur.


Chief Judge FULD.

A petition filed in the Family Court, Bronx County, alleged that, on March 12, 1970, Lawrence S., the respondent herein, had committed an act of sodomy upon an eight-year-old boy and robbed him of 43 cents. After a fact-finding hearing was held, a determination was made that he had committed acts which, if done by an adult, would have constituted the crimes of sodomy in the first degree (Penal...

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