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IN RE PATTERSON, PAYNE & DYER

No. 46,715

210 Kan. 245 (1972)

499 P.2d 1131

In the Interest of: EDWARD BOBBY PATTERSON, A Minor, TERRY LEE PAYNE, A Minor, DONALD WENDELL DYER, A Minor, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed July 19, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T.E. Lauer, of the National Juvenile Law Center, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, and Thomas De Coursey, of the Wyandotte County Legal Aid Society, Inc., Kansas City, Kansas, argued the cause, and Anthony R. Russo, Hosea Ellis Sowell and James C. Thompson, all of Kansas City, Kansas, were with them on the brief for the appellants.

Nick A. Tomasic, assistant county attorney, argued the cause, and Vern Miller, attorney general, and Frank D. Menghini, county attorney, were with him on the brief for the appellee.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

FOTH, C.:

This case is here because, since the 1965 act (Laws 1965, ch. 278.) fixing the age of adult responsibility for males at eighteen years, Kansas has utterly failed in its responsibility to the troubled 16 and 17 year old boys it now classifies as juveniles.

The dilemma our state faces in dealing with these young men was pointed out by this court six years ago...

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