Juvenile Crimes

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Juvenile Crime Defense Lawyer California

If your child, age 10 to 17 has been charged with a juvenile crime, you should immediately call Los Angeles and Southern California Juvenile Crime Defense Lawyer at The H Law Group. The H Law Group has the experience necessary to best defend the juvenile charges against him or her. If your child is convicted of a juvenile crime, he may lose his job, have his driver’s license suspended, or be denied student aid, or kicked out of public housing as a result of the juvenile conviction.

If convicted of a juvenile crime, the prosecution may mandate that your child be placed on probation, sent to juvenile jail, sent to probation camp, or even charged as an adult and sent to prison.

So, if your child has been charged with a juvenile crime, you should act quickly and hire the best Los Angeles Juvenile Crimes Defense Attorney at The H Law Group. Our attorneys have handled juvenile crime cases, and so they know how to best approach your case to achieve the best possible outcome for your child, as well as your family. The most common juvenile charges that we see are children who are caught in possession of marijuana or drunk driving.

For the best possible outcome, you need to select a juvenile criminal defense attorney who’s handled prior cases because juvenile crimes are unique, the right attorney may be able to get the case against your child dismissed by either the officer, juvenile officer, prosecutor, or the judge. Regardless of why your child was arrested or charged with a crime, you should hire an experienced criminal defense attorney to defend your child from overzealous prosecutors. Sentencing for juvenile crimes varies greatly from one case to another, so to achieve a favorable outcome for your child, you should contact the best defense attorney for juvenile crime at The H Law Group. The attorney assigned to your child’s case will review the facts of his or her case and will come up with the best defense strategy.

JUVENILE CRIMES FILED IN JUVENILE COURT VS ADULT COURT

Juvenile crimes can be charged as either a misdemeanor or as a felony. To keep overzealous prosecutors from punishing your child too harshly, you should contact a good criminal defense lawyer to fight for your child. That said, some juveniles are charged as adults, if this happens, all of the proceedings and court appearances will occur in adult court. If convicted as an adult, your child will be punished as an adult. That’s an outcome that no one wants. That said, not all juveniles are charged as adults. For the prosecution to charge your child as an adult, the crime but be very serious or your child has a very long criminal record. Whether your child is charged as a juvenile or adult lies within the hand of the prosecutor and the judge. So, having an aggressive juvenile defense attorney is necessary to ensure that your child’s rights are preserved and that he or she is treated fairly by our criminal justice system. If you have an excellent juvenile defense lawyer, he may be able to convince the prosecutor or the judge to keep your child’s case in juvenile court, to avoid having him treated as an adult.

FACTORS FOR JUVENILE VS ADULT CHARGES FOR JUVENILE CRIMES

Here are some of the factors that the prosecutor and judge consider when determining to charge a child as a juvenile or as an adult:

  • The age of the child
  • The severity of the crime
  • The degree of sophistic used to commit the crime
  • The criminal record of the juvenile
  • Whether rehabilitation will keep the child from committing future crimes

If the judge or prosecutor decides to charge and try your child as a juvenile, the criminal charges in adult court are dismissed, and new charges are filed with the juvenile court. However, if the judge decides to try your child as an adult, the case will be filed in adult court, and, if convicted, your child will be incarcerated at the California Department of Correction Juveniles facility, also known as the California Youth Authority.

JUVENILE CRIMES

Here are some of the most frequently charged crimes for juveniles. No matter which crime your juvenile is charged with, we will defend him or her. Here are the crimes:

Theft

Shoplifting

Alcohol consumption

Drug possession

robbery

DUI

Reckless driving

Assault

Battery

School fights

Possessing a weapon

Sex Crimes

Sexual assault

Murder

Manslaughter

Marijuana crimes

JUVENILE CRIME DEFENSE ATTORNEY

If your child has been charged with any of the juvenile crimes we just listed, you should immediately call a lawyer for juvenile crimes at The H Law Group. Our attorneys have the experience necessary to achieve the best possible legal outcome for your child. Contact Southern California and Los Angeles juvenile crime defense attorneys at 1 (213) 370-0404.

We believe that every child deserves a second chance, and so we will fight for them throughout the criminal process.