In which case did the Court hold that juveniles must be provided with essential due process rights, thus ending the “hands-off policy” previously taken by the Court?

a. Kent v. United States
b. In re Gault
c. In re Winship
d. McKeiver v. Pennsylvania


a. Kent v. United States

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