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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Juveniles are charged with a "delinquent act." Adults are charged with a "crime."  [b]The processes are different and juvenile charges cannot be held against an adult later in life. [/quote]
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NP. Well that is definitely not true.  Have you ever practiced criminal law in the juvenile courts. I have. In Florida at least, if a person is charged as an adult at anytime, the courts can go back three years into the juvenile record for inclusion in the computation of a crime. Therefore, if this action was committed in Florida and the boy committed no other crime until he turned 16 and committed a misdemeanor petty theft and charged as an adult or juvenile, the sexual assault is included as a prior. [/quote]

So the thirteen-year-old shouldn't be charged with assault (not sexual assault; just plain assault) now because if he goes on to commit a misdemeanor (like petty theft) when he is sixteen and is charged as an adult, then the assault he committed as a thirteen-year-old would be part of the misdemeanor proceedings?[/quote]

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