STATE IN INTEREST OF M.S.


139 N.J. Super. 503 (1976)

354 A.2d 646

STATE OF NEW JERSEY, IN THE INTEREST OF M.S., JUVENILE-APPELLANT. STATE OF NEW JERSEY, IN THE INTEREST OF E.O., JUVENILE-APPELLANT. STATE OF NEW JERSEY, IN THE INTEREST OF D.K., JUVENILE-APPELLANT. STATE OF NEW JERSEY, IN THE INTEREST OF E.M., JUVENILE-APPELLANT.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided February 27, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ms. Marcia R. Richman, Assistant Public Defender, argued the cause for all four appellants (Mr. Stanley C. Van Ness, Public Defender, attorney; Ms. Rita L. Bender, designated counsel, on the brief on behalf of M.S.; Mr. Louis R. Vinci, Assistant Deputy Public Defender, of counsel and on the brief on behalf of E.O.; Ms. Rosemary K. Reavey, Assistant Deputy Public Defender, of counsel and on the brief on behalf of D.K. and E.M.).

Mrs. Sara A. Friedman, Assistant Prosecutor, argued the cause for the State of New Jersey (Mr. Joseph P. Lordi, Essex County Prosecutor, attorney).

Mr. Lowell Espey, Deputy Attorney General, argued the cause on behalf of the Attorney General as amicus curiae (Mr. William F. Hyland, Attorney General of New Jersey, attorney).

Before Judges KOLOVSKY, BISCHOFF and BOTTER.


The opinion of the court was delivered by KOLOVSKY, P.J.A.D.

All four of the above appeals, consolidated for argument, involve the same principal issue. May a juvenile, who has been taken into custody on a charge that he or she is a juvenile in need of supervision and placed, by order entered following a shelter care hearing (N.J.S.A. 2A:4-58) by a judge of the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court (Juvenile Court), in a shelter care facility pending final...

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