Adult criminal justice system

Anmerkungen:

• Releases/diversion to community resources

1. Prosecutorial discretion

   Anmerkungen:

   • Is when the prosecution decides whether or not to charge a person for a crimeand which criminal charges to file.
2. Non-law enforcement sources

   Anmerkungen:

   • Diversion
   1. Law enforcement

      Anmerkungen:

      • Councel and release to parents/diversion to community resources
3. Statutory exclusion

   Anmerkungen:

   • A juvenile accused of an excluded offense is treated as an adult from the begining.
4. Detention Hearing

   Anmerkungen:

   • Releases
   1. Judicial waiver

      Anmerkungen:

      • When a juvenile court transfer case from a juvenile to adult court to deny the juvenile previleges under the jurvenile jurisdictions
   2. Petition filed
      1. Transfer to juvenile court

         Anmerkungen:

         • When a court decides if a juvenile should ne transfer to adult court.
      2. Guilty plea

         Anmerkungen:

         • When a defendant admits guilt and his sentence without a trail.
         1. Custodial

            Anmerkungen:

            • When found guilty they either held in jail or prison or sent to juvenile facility.
            1. Revocation
               1. Community supervision, fine, Community service, Restitution
                  1. Release
            2. Foster home, Group home, Camp/Ranch/School, Secure facility
      3. Adjudication

         Anmerkungen:

         • acquitted charges dismissed
         1. Conditional Release

            Anmerkungen:

            • When you are release from either custody of the juvenile facility or from court. where the individual is place under conditional stipulations.
            1. Appeal

               Anmerkungen:

               • An appeal is a challenge to a previous legal determinationsis directed towards a legal power higher than the power making the challenged determination. In most states and the federal system, trail court determinations can be appealed in an appellate court. www.law.cornell.edu/wex/appeal
         2. Nominal
            1. Reprimand
            2. warning