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When comparing juveniles and adults, juveniles are much more likely to refuse to talk to an attorney, even though it is the attorney's duty to help. When juveniles are asked if they trust their attorney, only 6.2% of juveniles related positively to disclosing information to their attorney. [36]
At times, a juvenile offender who is initially charged in juvenile court will be waived to adult court, meaning that the offender may be tried and sentenced in the same manner as an adult. [6] "Once an adult, always an adult" provisions state that juveniles who are convicted of a crime in adult court will thereafter always be tried in adult ...
Juvenile offenders aged 14–17 are always held criminally responsible, but they are always tried as young/juvenile offenders, meaning generally more lenient sentences compared to adults. Also, juvenile offenders' photos and names usually cannot be released by the media, and access to the juvenile court list/courtroom is restricted to ...
A 16-year-old Erie boy was given a break in 2022 when, after being charged as an adult months earlier with firing numerous shots from two handguns at a passing vehicle and with having a ...
Getting involved with the justice system is one of the fastest ways to end a teenager’s potential for becoming a successful adult. Being jailed as a juvenile makes a kid less likely to graduate from high school and more likely to be incarcerated later in life, according to a 2015 study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
A 15-year-old teen accused of firing a gun during the Hollywood Broadwalk mass shooting that left nine wounded on Memorial Day has been transferred to adult court.
Roughly 98% of the kids tried as adults in Florida were transferred from the juvenile system through the state’s “direct file” laws, which empower prosecutors to transfer a child to adult ...
In Louisiana, minors under 18 are typically tried in juvenile courts, where the focus is on rehabilitation, but certain serious crimes can lead to minors being tried Senate looks to put juvenile ...