Juvenile Crimes Articles

Articles Related to Being Arrested for a Juvenile Offense

• Be Careful Who Your Friends are – You Can Be Arrested on a Warrantless Search
• If You Receive Miranda Warnings, Your Talking and Subsequent Silence to Certain Questions Can Be Used Against You as Adoptive Admissions
• Insufficient Warrant Does Not Render Search Invalid
• Minor in Possession of Alcohol - What Happens?
• Juvenile Found in Possession of Less than an Ounce of Marijuana – What are the Defenses and What is the Possible Punishment?
• Your Cell Phone May Incriminate You of More Serious Offenses in a Traffic Stop
• An Admission is Inadmissible if After an Illegal Search as the Fruit of a Poisonous Tree
  
• What is the WIC 654 Program for Juveniles Accused of Crimes?
• Detective Use of “False Choice” Interrogation Technique of Juvenile Ruled Coercive; Confession Ruled Involuntary and Juvenile Adjudication Reversed
• Is a Promise to Disobey a Police Officer’s Order a Crime?
  

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Articles Related to Being in Court for a Juvenile Offense

• What Should I Wear and Bring to Court?
  
• Why Hire Private Counsel? Why Shouldn't I just Use the Public Defender?
  
• What is an Arraignment?
• Seventeen Year Old May Be Charged as an Adult With Federal Second Degree Murder Based on Lay Testimony That He Had Average Intelligence and Maturity
• Is it Proper for the Prosecutor to Charge Me With More Than What Police Arrested Me for?
• Which County Will Prosecute Me if I Committed a Crime in Two Different Counties?
• Underage DUI is Not Similar to a Juvenile Offense for Sentencing in a Later Drug Case
• Conspiracy Liability Very Broad – Beware
• Conviction Reversed for District Attorney Withholding Evidence
• Unruly Defendant Removed from Courtroom is Not Entitled to Have Audio or Video Feed to Hear or See Continued Testimony in Trial
• When a Pitchess Motion is Granted, the Judge Must Review the Police Officer’s Confidential Personnel Records Rather Than Delegate such Review to Another Person
• Plea Bargaining by the Judge is Illegal
  
• Juvenile Court Judge May Not Disqualify Public Defender Unless a Conflict Exists
  

Articles Related to Being in Trial for a Juvenile Offense

• Fifth Amendment Rights Violated When DA Points to Silence as Evidence of Guilt
• Is the Prosecution Allowed to Add Charges During Trial Based on Witness Testimony in Trial?
• Did the Prosecution Violate Your Sixth Amendment Right to a Speedy Trial?
  
• What is a "Trial Tax"?
  

Articles Related to Sentencing for a Juvenile Offense

• A “No Contest” Plea to New Criminal Charges Can Constitute a Probation Violation
• Life in Prison Without Possibility of Parole is Unconstitutional for Juvenile Nonhomicide Offender
• What is Split Sentencing?
• What is the Difference Between an Infraction and a Misdemeanor?
• WhatiIs the Difference Between a Misdemeanor and a Felony?
• What is a Wobbler and May a Felony Be Changed to a Misdemeanor?
• Court May Prohibit the Use of Medical Marijuana Use as a Term of Probation
• Sentence of 100 Years for Juvenile is Reversed as Cruel and Unusual Punishment or Aiding and Abetting Murder
• Adult Convicted of Resisting Arrest May Not Serve Sentence in County Jail Because of Juvenile Strike
• Thirty Years to Life Sentence for Juvenile Sex Crime Defendant Not Cruel and Unusual Punishment
• Juvenile’s Sentence from 22 Years Ago for 254 Years for Sex Crimes Set Aside
• Twenty Years of California Law Changed: Juveniles Who Commit Certain Serious Crimes Should Not Receive Presumptive Life Sentences
• Sentence of 50 Years to Life for Teenager for First Degree Murder Not Cruel and Unusual Punishment
• Is Expungement Worth it?
• A Judge May Require that a Juvenile be Tracked by a GPS Monitoring Device, Even if the Juvenile is only Accused of Being Truant from School
• What is Home on Probation (HOP) in a Juvenile Case?
• If My Juvenile Record of a Felony is Reduced to a Misdemeanor, Does This Mean it is Eligible for Sealing and Destruction?
• What’s J.O.I.N. & Who’s Eligible for this Diversion Program?
• I am or Know a Victim of Elder Abuse – What Should I Do?
• Proposition 47 (Prop 47) Now Applies to Juvenile Cases
• Ninety Year Sentence Void for Juvenile Convicted of Murder
• Juvenile Probation & Electronics Search Conditions – Legal?
  
  

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