The first court case will be Kent v. United States which took place on January 19th, 1966. This court case involved a 16-year-old child named Morris A. Kent Jr, he was detained and interrogated by police for several crimes including robbery and rape (Kent v. United States). After a few days in court Kent admitted to being involved in most of the crimes that he was detained and interrogated about (Kent v. United States). Because of Kent admitting to several crimes the court decided to wavier the jurisdiction, this means that Kent didn’t have to be tried as a child but the court could try him as an adult. Kent’s attorney called for a hearing to discuss the decision of the court but he and Kent were denied which violates Kent’s rights (Kent v. …show more content…
The In re Gault case was in 1967 and it was focused on a 15-year-old boy named Gerald Gault. Gault was accused by a neighbor of making obscene prank phone calls to their home while Gault was on probation (Facts and Case). Gault and a close friend were arrested and sent to the Children’s Detention Home. Gault was on probation at the time for stealing a wallet from a lady’s purse (Facts and Case). After the arrest, police made no effort to contact the parents of their son’s arrest, and when Gault’s parents arrived home they could not find their son, they went off looking for him and came across Gault’s friend’s family who got arrested as well and that’s how the Gault family found out of their son’s actions. On the same day as Gault’s court hearing the arresting officer filed for a petition but the petition was not even seen by Gault or his family until two months later at his habeas corpus hearing (Fact and Case). Many hearings were taken place and at each hearing Mrs. Cook was never present, Mrs. Cook was the women who was getting the inappropriate phone calls. The mother of Gault wanted Mrs. Cook to be there so she could see what boy was doing the talking but she did not show (Fact and Case). This way the court does not have any evidence on which boy was talking to the women on the phone. At each hearing, there was no record or transcript made. At the final hearing, Mrs. Cook was not there again. Probation officer filed charges for lewd phone calls and Gault was sentenced to 6 years in the juvenile detention center until he turned 21 years old. The problem with this court case is that were the procedures constitutionally legitimate under Due Process Clause? Due Process is if there was fair treatment through normal judicial system. The answer to that is no, the juvenile court failed to comply with the constitution (Facts and Case). The