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Failure to Advise Respondent of His Right to Counsel at a Temporary Removal Hearing Not Condoned—Reversal Not Required Because No Evidence from the Temporary Removal Hearing Was Elicited in the Subsequent Neglect Proceedings

The Third Department determined that Family Court’s failure to advise respondent on his right to counsel in a temporary removal hearing did not require the reversal of a subsequent neglect adjudication.  None of the evidence elicited at the temporary removal hearing was used during the neglect proceedings:

It is well established that failure to fully advise a respondent of his or her right to counsel is a deprivation of a fundamental right that requires reversal of any “resulting adjudication” in a proceeding pursuant to Family Ct Act article 10, whether or not prejudice is shown … . “[A] Family Ct Act § 1022 removal hearing is no exception” to this requirement … . Here, Family Court undisputedly failed to advise respondent of his right to counsel “[w]hen [he] first appear[ed] in court . . . before proceeding” with the temporary removal hearing (Family Ct Act § 262 [a]). We do not condone this failure … .

Nonetheless, we agree with the attorney for the children that the circumstances present here are distinguished from the precedent cited above –not due to the lack of any resulting prejudice, which would not suffice — but rather and specifically relative to whether the determination ultimately rendered after the fact-finding hearing constituted a “resulting adjudication.” Here, the neglect adjudication was based solely upon evidence elicited during the course of the fact-finding hearing; no testimony from the temporary removal hearing — in which respondent did not participate — was introduced. The adjudication following fact-finding did not therefore rely, in any part, on the evidence adduced at the temporary removal hearing … . Matter of Elijah ZZ, 2014 NY Slip Op 04280, 3rd Dept 6-12-14

 

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