this plea deal is horrible. what was the DA thinking? If I was the murdered young man's mother i would be livid too.
PW can you please give us a little insight into how this happens? Seriously how can a judge let this happen and be okay with it? It’s crazy to me that 10 months is all they received. What are they going to learn from that? Moo
I certainly am not an expert in juvenile law (I've avoided it for the most part) and procedures vary greatly from state to state. But, within the confines of the statutes, it is up to the prosecutor whether they are prosecuted as adults or juveniles. And once it is in juvenile, punishment options are limited. The Judge could have rejected this odd plea agreement, but the DA would likely have just dismissed. I very early on suspected something like this would happen based upon what I knew of the DA. For 17 year old to be prosecuted as juveniles for a violent assault resulting in a death is rather unusual, but here we are.
