“the privacy of juvenile proceedings in themselves offers protection to a child from the adverse effect of groundless charges upon his reputation”
How later courts described this case
- “the privacy of juvenile proceedings in themselves offers protection to a child from the adverse effect of groundless charges upon his reputation”
- describing Ohio’s juvenile-court hearings and records as “non-public.”
- “we can perceive no benefit worthy of destroying a juvenile’s traditional entitlement to special status which might accrue to an alleged delinquent from a jury trial”
- “Like indictment, the privacy of juvenile proceedings in themselves offers protection to a child from the adverse effect of groundless charges upon his reputation.”
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
Duncan, J.,
concurs in paragraph one of the syllabus and in the judgment.