Legal Question in Criminal Law in Arkansas

Juvenile Law

If you are a juvenile and have had one previous conviction, vandalism resulting in 60,000 dollars worth of damage, and a couple of years later you are found in possion of stolen property, which you stole, $500.00 plus, but no charges are pressed, a formal report is files but no charges. And less then one year you decide to break into a home and get charged with two counts Breaking and Entering, Residiental Burlglary,this involves a fire arm and theft of property, 2,500.00 plus and others, it ends up that you have two class C felony's and two class D felony's and class A misdemenor. This is your third strike, and your shool attendence is pitiful and so are your grades what is likely to be the punishment?


Asked on 9/14/99, 10:01 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Jes Beard Jes Beard, Attorney at Law

Re: Juvenile Law

If you are a juvenile with the record, you have mentioned you are a really sorry punk.

Sentancing will vary widely not only from state to state but from judge to judge in the same city.

I'm licensed in Tennessee and really have no familiarity at all with the sentencing patterns of your judges, but if you were here I would expect you to be taken into state custody and sent to a lock-down facility where there is razor wire on the fences and the doors are locked behind you when you go to sleep at night, and you would be there until you were 19.... and that is exactly what you would deserve.

If you were 16 you would possibly be prosecuted as an adult and end up in an adult prison for an additional several years after you reached 19.

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Answered on 9/16/99, 5:34 pm


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