The filing of a juvenile delinquency complaint does not trigger the right to counsel as a criminal indictment does, the Appellate Division ruled Monday.
“The admittedly different objectives of and procedures followed by the Family Part in juvenile delinquency matters cannot lead to the wholesale importation of the system of adversary criminal justice to Family Part juvenile matters,” the court held in State in the Interest of P.M.P. , A-5156-07.
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