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Should juveniles be part of the adult court system? This question has been asked and worried about between teens and adults for many years. Socrates (Greek philosopher) said, “Children show little respect for their elders.” Younger and younger children are committing violent crimes. One of the major decisions of that time was In Re Gault that may have led to the decision that the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment wasn’t for adults only. The case of In Re Gault started when Gerald Gault, 15-year-old citizen of Arizona, made rude phone calls to a neighbor. Gault asked, “Do you give any?” “Are your cherries ripe today?” and “Do you have big bombers?” the neighbor complained to the police and Gault was taken into custody. Gerald’s parents were not informed of his arrest and searched for their missing child, which they found out later that he was arrested by one of Gault’s frie