Opinion

Young v. State

  • 553 P.2d 192
  • 1976 OK CR 153
Court
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Filed
Jun 23, 1976
Status
Published
Author
Brett
On the bench
Bliss, Brett, Bussey
Cited by
8 cases

The opinion

BRETT, Presiding Judge

(specially concurring).

I concur in the decision reached in the majority’s opinion. I feel it necessary to emphasize, however, that today’s holding is limited to the use of defendant’s juvenile court record in a pre-sentencing report authorized by 22 O.S.Supp., § 982, the purpose of which is to aid the trial judge in tailoring punishment to fit the individual offender. These confidential juvenile court records are not directly available, for example, to the office of the prosecutor.

I emphasize also that today’s opinion limits the portions of the juvenile records available to the court to “hard-core legal facts such as the pertinent facts of adjudication, disposition and rehabilitative history surrounding the disposition.” This limitation upon availability is, I believe, wise and necessary because records made of the *198 social and family history of a juvenile offender often describe in some detail the characteristics, habits and life style of his family, friends and associates which information may not be germane to the decision to be made by the court and may constitute an unreasonable invasion of the privacy of those persons.

This is a copy of a public record, reproduced as it was published. It is not legal advice, and it may not be the version a court would rely on. Check the official source before you cite it.

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