IN RE J. CLYDE K.

Docket No. A032098.

192 Cal.App.3d 710 (1987)

237 Cal. Rptr. 550

In re J. CLYDE K. et al., Persons Coming Under the Juvenile Court Law. THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. J. CLYDE K. et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Two.

June 12, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Benjamin R. Winslow and Paula Schmidt, under appointments by the Court of Appeal, for Defendants and Appellants.

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, Steve White, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Ronald E. Niver and Josanna Berkow, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

ROUSE, Acting P.J.

This case is illustrative of an oft-heard proposition: Confession is not only good for the soul (an old Scottish proverb) but it often gets the wrongdoer "off the hook." Here, two minors complain that a confession which caused them to become wards of the juvenile court was involuntarily coerced. We conclude that existing statutory and case law support their...

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