SB 1498

Bill Subjects

Abstract

Direct Filing of an Information; Prohibiting a jail or other facility intended or used for the detention of adults from holding a child who has been transferred to adult court for criminal prosecution before a specified hearing to determine if the child should be prosecuted as an adult, unless the child waives his or her right to such hearing; deleting references to the state attorney’s discretion to direct file a juvenile; requiring a court to advise a child and his or her parent or guardian of the child’s right to a certain due process evidentiary hearing upon a state attorney filing an information transferring a child to adult court, etc.