Juvenile
Jul. 3, 2007
Panel Says Juvenile-Court Convictions Don't Count as Priors
In a big blow to the three-strikes law, a divided state appellate panel has held that courts can't use prior juvenile convictions to boost punishments for offenders who later commit crimes as adults.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
In a big blow to the three-strikes law, a divided state appellate panel has held that courts can't use prior juvenile convictions to boost punishments for offenders who later commit crimes as adults.
The 2-1 decision in a case out of San Jose breaks with earlier case law and seems likely to end up before the California Supreme Court.
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