Juvenile Crimes

WE HAVE NEARLY TWO DECADES OF

SPECIALIZED JUVENILE DEFENSE EXPERIENCE.

When minors and teens are accused of crimes their cases are handled in special tribunals called juvenile delinquency courts. Commonly, charges in juvenile courts involve accusations like tagging, possession of marijuana (or other drugs), statutory rape, weapons at school, shoplifting, and underage drinking. In these courts, minors are prosecuted using special rules, special prosecutors and special judges. It only makes sense that your child’s defense attorney be specially trained and experienced to mount a defense against those prosecutors, in front of those judges. Most criminal defense attorneys are not trained in the special programs that juveniles may have available to them. The true purpose of these juvenile courts is to rehabilitate. This is because we, as a society, believe that childhood indiscretion can be remedied and that children, by definition, have not yet had the opportunity to reach full cognitive and social maturity. Though these courts focus more upon rehabilitation, minors still face potential punishments such as being removed from the home to be placed in a juvenile hall or in other long term juvenile detention centers such as camp. Minors can also be subjected to lifetime sex offender registration and prison-like sentences in the California Department of Juvenile Justice. Because so much is at stake and because your child’s future can be affected by these criminal- like courts, you need the assistance of qualified experienced juvenile defense counsel. Only these specially qualified defense attorneys stand a chance at being taken seriously in these specialized juvenile courts.