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IN THE MATTER OF ANTHONY S

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department.
Feb 18, 2003
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DECISION ORDER

ORDERED that the order of disposition dated April 24, 2002, is reversed, on the law, without costs or disbursements, the admission is vacated, and the matter is remitted to the Family Court, Suffolk County, for further proceedings in accordance herewith.

Family Court Act § 321.3(1) requires that, before granting its consent to entry of an admission, the Family Court ascertain through allocution of the juvenile and, in this case, the juvenile's mother, that the juvenile committed the act to which he or she is entering an admission, that he or she is voluntarily waiving his or her right to a fact-finding hearing, and that he or she is aware of all possible specific dispositional orders that it may issue, and further provides that these requirements are not waivable. Reversal is required on the basis that the court failed to ascertain whether the juvenile, in making his admission, was aware of the "possible specific dispositional orders" (see Family Ct Act § 321.3[c]; Matter of LeJuane S., 247 A.D.2d 481, 482). Moreover, the court failed to obtain an allocution of the juvenile's mother as to her understanding of the consequences of the juvenile's admission (see Matter of Perry O., 232 A.D.2d 225; Matter of Shantique F., 223 A.D.2d 590, 591; Matter of Melvin A., 216 A.D.2d 227, 228).

In light of the foregoing, we do not reach any other issue.

ALTMAN, J.P., S. MILLER, FRIEDMANN and McGINITY, JJ., concur.