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NEW YEAR’S EVE AND MINOR IN POSSESSION OF ALCOHOL – MIP

Liza Burke — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 20:15:33 +0000

New Years Eve = parties = adult beverages. Who likes adult beverages the most? Aside from alcoholics or young revelers it is, of course, minors. All across Washington state, minors will be consuming and possessing alcohol. And they will be doing so in groups, publicly, in cars, in basements, maybe at your home while you’re [...]

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When the Victim Doesn’t Want to Prosecute

Liza Burke — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:26:49 +0000

I very regularly receive calls from people who are involved in a criminal case as a victim. The prosecutor and court refer to victims as “The Victim.” By the time I get the call, “The Victim” has learned that he/she is not in control of a criminal prosecution. It is true that the victim or [...]

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Juvenile Criminal History and College Applications in Florida

Liza Burke — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:30:20 +0000

Hello from Florida! I’m not a Florida juvenile law attorney, but I figured somebody from Washington might want to go to college here. The temptation to flee to sunshine after years in Washington might be strong. As I am here in Florida I thought I would report on the goings on with college applications in Florida. Just like with colleges and universities in [...]

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Disclosure of Juvenile Crimes on College Applications – Maybe, Mabye Not

Liza Burke — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 01:28:31 +0000

Questions regarding student discipline and juvenile crimes on a college application are always a concern for parents, attorneys or advisors to teenagers who plan to attend college. The issue is often discussed in juvenile criminal negotiations and should be discussed. One commonly used admission application is The Common Application. The Common Application is actually a [...]

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A juvenile sex offense – guilty until proven innocent?

Liza Burke — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 04:11:39 +0000

Bad enough for a child to be charged with a sex offense, but to make matters even more challenging are the pretrial ”conditions of release” placed on a youth at the time of the first hearing. These are rules that imposed on a child simply because a juvenile sex crime has been charged. These rules are an abrupt change on [...]

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Guilty of a Juvenile Offense? It Shall Not Be Deemed a Criminal Conviction

Liza Burke — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 02:56:00 +0000

Last summer the Legislature passed an amendment to our juvenile laws that clarify that a court order finding a “juvenile offender” guiltyof a crime is not a criminal conviction. This was really just tidying the statutory language to replace “juvenile delinquent” with ”juvenile offender” to be in keeping with the terms used in the rest of the [...]

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In the Eye of the Beholder – A Juvenile Sex Offense

Liza Burke — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 03:09:53 +0000

Parents and kids alike know that they don’t want a sex offense and they don’t want sex offender labels anywhere near them. But what is a sex offense and who is a sex offender? Under Washington law, there are sexual offenses that are explicitly defined as “sex offenses” and then there are offenses of a [...]

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Myth: Juvenile Court Records Go Away at Age 18

Liza Burke — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 05:48:25 +0000

It’s a myth that juvenile offenses automatically go away at age 18 in Washington State. No juvenile adjudication automatically goes away after age 18- with one exception – a deferred disposition that was successfully completed. Otherwise, all other offenses that were filed in juvenile court, including charges that were dropped by the prosecutor or dismissed [...]

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