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          In re Gault

          1967 United States Supreme Court case

          In re Gault, 387 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision which held the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment applies to juveniledefendants as well as to adult defendants.[1] Juveniles accused of crimes in a delinquency proceeding must be afforded many of the same due process rights as adults, such as the right to timely notification of the charges, the right to confront witnesses, the right against self-incrimination, and the right to counsel.

          The court's opinion was written by Justice Abe Fortas, a noted proponent of children's rights.

          Background

          In June 1964, the sheriff of Gila County, Arizona, took 15-year-old Gerald Gault into custody, without notifying Gault's parents, after a neighbor, Ora Cook, complained of receiving an inappropriate and offensive telephone call.[2] After returning home from work that evening to find her son missing, Gault's mother eventually located him