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IN RE WALKER

No. 26.

191 S.E.2d 702 (1972)

282 N.C. 28

In the Matter of Valerie Lenise WALKER.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

October 11, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wallace C. Harrelson, Public Defender, and J. Dale Shepherd, Asst. Public Defender, for respondent appellant.

Robert Morgan, Atty. Gen., and R. S. Weathers, Asst. Atty. Gen., for State of North Carolina, appellee.

Norman B. Smith, of Smith, Patterson, Follin & Curtis, Greensboro, for respondent appellant's amicus curiae, North Carolina Civil Liberties Union Legal Foundation, Inc.

HUSKINS, Justice:

Appellant Valerie Walker contends that she had a constitutional right to counsel at the hearing on the initial petition alleging her to be an undisciplined child. We first consider whether the Constitution affords her such right.

In In re Gault, 387 U.S. 1, 87 S.Ct. 1428, 18 L.Ed.2d 527 (1967), the United States Supreme Court held, inter alia, that "the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment...

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