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What happens if a minor commits a crime and then charged when an adult?
6 Answers
- 4 years ago
They'll be charged as an adult. There's cases where the trial has been postponed until the defendent has reached adulthood so that they can be tried as an adult, normally only when they're close to being an adult anyway and the crime is a bad one/multiple offences.
- STEVEN FLv 74 years ago
What happens depends on BOTH the jurisdiction, AND the crime. In some cases, they couldn't be prosecuted after 4 years, even if they were a legal adult at the time of the crime. In others, they would still be tried and sentenced as if they were a juvenile, and they could be held by the juvenile system up to age 25. In still others, they could have been tried as an adult at 14, and will still be tried as such.
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- Anonymous4 years ago
He could be charged as a minor or an adult, depending on the laws where it happened.
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Criminal prosecutions and sentences depend on many things. The location of the action, your age, the charges pursued by the prosecutor, the laws applicable and penalties prescribed in the law in your location, the judge involved, the defense attorney, the amount of discretion the judge has, etc. In many cases people can’t begin to guess an outcome unless they know really specific details.