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Children's Court Meant To Try Not Just Cases Where Child Rights Are Violated But Also Juveniles To Be Tried As Adults: MP High Court

Louisiana GOP lawmakers want to make it easier to try juveniles as adults

— Louisiana’s Republican-controlled Legislature approved a constitutional amendment on Friday that would allow them to expand the number of crimes in which juveniles between 14 and 16 years old could be tried as adults. Opponents, including Democrats, social workers and criminal justice reform advocates, said specific offenses routing juveniles to adult courts should remain part of the constitution to keep …

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Juveniles Tried As Adults Cannot Be Deprived Of Their Right To Bail Under Juvenile Justice Act: Uttarakhand High Court

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — New Jersey’s statewide police union said Wednesday there needs to be “real consequences” for drunken, rowdy teens and adults who create mayhem in public places following a series of disturbances at Jersey Shore towns over the Memorial Day weekend that included the stabbing of a teen. Peter Andreyev, president of the New Jersey State Policemens’ Benevolent …

Chief Justice of India D.Y. “While children may make wrong decisions during their developmental journey, they do not merit the same treatment as fully grown adults,” Chief Justice Chandrachud said in his address at the National Symposium on Juvenile Justice in Nepal on Saturday. Justice and rehabilitation Chief Justice Chandrachud said that a swift resolution of cases involving juveniles should …

Owing to several procedural lapses by the Juvenile Justice Board, Yavatmal, the Bombay High Court ordered re-adjudication of a plea to try two juveniles as adults in the case of a gang-rape of a minor girl. Justice GA Sanap at the Nagpur bench noted that the JJB’s roznama didn’t specify if the juveniles or their advocates were even given a …

Earlier this month, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights issued draft guidelines that debated whether the preliminary assessment of minors in certain cases could be tried under law as adults under section 15 of the Juvenile Justice Act. The Juvenile Justice Act, 2015 dictated that a juvenile aged between 16 and 18 can be tried as an adult …

Hyderabad gang rape: When can juveniles be tried as adults?

The police probing the gang rape of a teenage girl in Hyderabad want to prosecute the five arrested minors as adults. This is allowed after the 2015 amendment to the Juvenile Justice Act, if they are accused of a ‘heinous crime’ and are between the ages of 16 and 18 Police officials, investigation the gang rape of a teenage girl …

George Gascón, shown at a news conference last year, later retreated from his all-or-nothing rule against trying juveniles as adults. George Gascón’s policy of not trying juveniles as adults has been charged with murder and robbery in Kern County, authorities there said. Tubbs was allowed to plead guilty in Los Angeles County’s juvenile court and sentenced to two years in …

Los Angeles County prosecutors can now seek to try juveniles as adults and pursue life sentences against defendants in certain cases, according to memos issued Friday by Dist. When he first took office in late 2020, Gascón made waves by immediately banning prosecutors from seeking the death penalty or life sentences without the possibility of parole, while also severely limiting …

Los Angeles County Dist. George Gascón has modified his blanket ban on trying juveniles as adults due to a pending state Supreme Court case and continuing backlash over a decision to allow a 26-year-old to plead guilty to sexually assaulting a child in juvenile court last month. The document also directs prosecutors to notify Woo of cases where a defendant …