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Teen or youth courts provide an alternative court system through which juvenile offenders can be heard and judged by their peers.Most teen courts have strict guidelines for youth volunteers who participate in the sentencing process, which generally includes training, a modified bar exam, peer mentoring and compliance with a code of conduct.
Juvenile court, also known as young offender's court or children's court, is a tribunal having special authority to pass judgements for crimes committed by children who have not attained the age of majority. In most modern legal systems, children who commit a crime are treated differently from legal adults who have committed the same offense.
Harris County Juvenile Justice Center. The American juvenile justice system is the primary system used to handle minors who are convicted of criminal offenses. The system is composed of a federal and many separate state, territorial, and local jurisdictions, with states and the federal government sharing sovereign police power under the common authority of the United States Constitution.
In a courtroom on the 11th floor of the Miami-Dade Children’s Courthouse, Judge Orlando Prescott lectures a 17-year-old boy about the importance of associating with trustworthy people — and ...
A third Benton County teen charged with murder and facing a move from juvenile to adult court. A “decline” hearing for Jacquez Young, 15, is scheduled for this week.
In every case, the offender has the right to a lawyer. The court process contains two main parts, the trial, and the sentencing. The trial is also known as adjudication, or fact-finding. Evidence pertaining to the case is presented by both the prosecutor and defendant. The sentencing portion is also known as the disposition hearing.
Aug. 24—ROYSE CITY — The Royse City Teen Court will soon be back in session. Teen court programs, which were approved by the Texas Legislature in 1989, provide teen offenders who plead guilty ...
Justice O'Connor was the key vote in both cases, being the lone justice to concur in the two. Sixteen years later, Roper v. Simmons overruled Stanford. Justice Kennedy, who concurred with Scalia's opinion in Stanford, instead wrote the opinion of the court in Roper and became the key vote. Justice O'Connor dissented.