SB346 Alabama 2015 Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Tom Whatley
Republican
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: 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.
This bill would change the threshold age of a youthful offender.
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.
This bill would also expunge the record of a youthful offender.
Subjects: Youthful Offenders

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Judiciary