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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]
The juvenile will stand trial as an adult in the 2023 killing of 15-year-old Eriya Ruiz if he is indicted on a murder charge. ... and denying any political associations to justice being served in ...
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 ...
Only one in 10 of the more than 20,000 children tried as adults in Florida were given juvenile sanctions and less than 5% received a “youthful offender” designation, the Herald found in an ...
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 ...
A Jackson County judge heard testimony Tuesday as part of a certification hearing to determine if a 16-year-old will be tried as an adult in connection with the Chiefs rally shooting.
The trend towards adult adjudication has had implications for the racial make-up of the juvenile prison population as well. Minority youth tried in adult courts are much more likely to be sentenced to serve prison time than white youth offenders arrested for similar crimes. [15]
Tubbs was allowed to plead guilty in Los Angeles County's juvenile court and sentenced to two years in custody because of a policy Gascón implemented that barred juveniles from being tried as adults.