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Juvenile Rights In Court Cases

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In terms of police interrogations, juveniles don’t have many rights. In terms of the constitutional protection, juveniles are protected by, 14th amendments test for voluntariness of confession under the totality of circumstances clause, the sixth amendments right to counsel, and the fifth amendments privilege against self-incrimination. In cases such as Haley v. Ohio and Gallegos v. Colorado, the courts decided that ones age, the time of the questioning, and the absence of a legal parent/guardian or a lawyer without waiver of these rights results in confessions that are involuntary and unconstitutional. Those are just some of the rights given to juveniles though. These rights don’t nearly compare to those rights in adult courts, but unlike
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