SB346 Alabama 2015 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2015

Title

Youthful offenders, change threshold age, give judge discretion to consider past youthful offender status, to expunge record of, Secs. 15-19-1, 15-19-7 am'd.

Description

<p class="bill_description"> Under existing law, a person charged with a crime which is committed when he or she is under the age of 19 may be charged as a youthful offender</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would change the threshold age of a youthful offender</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would specify that a judge may use his or her discretion in determining whether to consider a prior adjudication as a youthful offender of a person who subsequently commits another crime</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would also expunge the record of a youthful offender</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> Relating to youthful offenders; to amend Sections 15-19-1 and 15-19-7, Code of Alabama 1975; to change the threshold age of a youthful offender; to specify that a judge may use his or her discretion in determining whether to consider a prior adjudication as a youthful offender of a person who subsequently commits another crime; and to expunge the record of a youthful offender. </p>

Subjects

Youthful Offenders