More youths accused of serious crimes in North Carolina would be automatically tried in adult court in legislation that advanced through the state Senate. The measure approved Wednesday reworks some of the bipartisan juvenile justice reforms that ended in late 2019 the mandate that 16- and 17-year-olds be tried in the adult criminal justice system.
RALEIGH, N.C. — More youths accused of serious crimes in North Carolina would be automatically tried in adult court in legislation that advanced through the state Senate on Wednesday.
The current law says that 16- and 17-year-olds accused of the most serious felonies, from murder and rape to violent assaults and burglary, must be transferred to Superior Court after an indictment is handed up or a hearing determines there is probable cause a crime was committed. Prosecutors have some discretion keeping cases for lower-grade felonies in juvenile court.
The bill also would create a new process whereby a case can be removed from Superior Court to juvenile court — with the adult records deleted — if the prosecutor and the defendant’s attorney agree to do so. “It is going to be a harder lift for those juvenile defense attorneys to convince a prosecutor who already has them in adult court to remand someone down to juvenile court than it is if you have someone in juvenile court and getting them to keep them there,” Barber told the Senate Rules Committee.
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