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Submitted April 18, 2007.
Decided September 27, 2007.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
David H. Bodiker, Ohio Public Defender, and Amanda J. Powell, Assistant State Public Defender, for appellant.
Robert L. Becker, Licking County Prosecuting Attorney, and Daniel H. Huston, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for appellee state of Ohio.
Marsha L. Levick, Mia V. Carpiniello, Jennifer K. Pokempner, Lourdes M. Rosado, and Riya S. Shah, pro hac vice, urging reversal for amicus curiae Juvenile Law Center.
Kim Brooks Tandy, urging reversal for amicus curiae Children's Law Center, Inc.
Jeffrey M. Gamso, urging reversal for amici curiae ACLU of Ohio Foundation, American Civil Liberties Union, Children's Defense Fund, and National Association of Counsel for Children.
Yeura R. Venters, urging reversal for amicus curiae Franklin County Public Defender.
Kay Locke, urging reversal for amicus curiae Montgomery County Public Defender.
Emily Hagan, urging reversal for amici curiae Voices for Ohio's Children and Juvenile Justice Coalition.
Linda Julian, urging reversal for amici curiae Juvenile Justice Advocacy Alliance and Alternatives for Youth.
Katherine Hunt Federle and Jason A. Macke, urging reversal for amicus curiae Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Justice for Children Project.
Charles M. Clovis, urging reversal for amicus curiae Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Supreme Court of Ohio.
O'CONNOR, J.
{¶ 1} Forty years after the Supreme Court's watershed ruling in In re Gault (1967), 387 U.S. 1, 87 S.Ct. 1428, 18 L.Ed.2d 527, we address important questions concerning the scope of a juvenile's right to counsel in a delinquency proceeding and the waiver of that right. We hold that the juvenile's right to counsel is a right that he may...
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