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Juvenile Offenses
RELIABLE JUVENILE REPRESENTATION
Has your child been charged with a crime? Get the counseling you need from the professionals at Earl K. Desmond Attorney at Law. A juvenile is a minor, which in most states is a person under the age of 18. When a juvenile violates the law, the consequences can be very different from those if an adult broke the same law.
When a juvenile commits a crime and if the charges are proved in juvenile court, the minor comes under the jurisdiction of the court. Among other actions, the court might return the minor home, impose formal or informal probation, place him or her in foster care, enroll the juvenile in a special school for juvenile offenders or even commit the child to a county’s juvenile detention center or a juvenile prison run by the state of Ohio. This can continue until the minor turns 18, or even 21, depending on the severity of the incident.
In Ohio, minors 14 or older committing very serious offenses may even be transferred to adult court and prosecuted and punished like an adult. It is therefore a mistake to take the juvenile court process lightly. Call us at 419-946-2100 to schedule a meeting.
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You can count on us to respond quickly and efficiently in order to meet the needs of the juvenile who has been charged. There is no right to bail in juvenile court, so if it is in the best interest of the minor, we will work hard to convince the judge to let him or her go home while the case is pending.
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