In re T.S.’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “(A) [A] juvenile court may impose a serious youthful offender dispositional sentence on a child only if the prosecuting attorney of the county in which the delinquent act allegedly occurred initiates the process against the child in accordance with this division, and the child is an alleged delinquent child who is eligible for the dispositional sentence. The prosecuting attorney may initiate the process in any of the following ways: (1) Obtaining an indictment of the child as a serious youthful offender; (2) The child waives the right to indictment, charging the child in a bill of information as a serious youthful offender; (3) Until an indictment or information is obtained, requesting a serious youthful offender dispositional sentence in the original complaint alleging that the child is a delinquent child; (4) Until an indictment or information is obtained, if the original complaint does not request a serious youthful offender dispositional sentence, filing with the juvenile court a written notice of intent to seek a serious youthful offender dispositional sentence within twenty days after the later of the following, unless the time is extended by the juvenile court for good cause shown: (a) The date of the child's first juvenile court hearing regarding the complaint; (b) The date the juvenile court determines not to transfer the case under section 2152.12 of the Revised Code. After a written notice is filed under division (A)(4) of this section, the juvenile court shall ser”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re K.A.

2. “[T]he state must provide notice to the alleged delinquent child of its intent to pursue an indictment of the child as a serious youthful offender within 20 days of the juvenile court's determination to deny transfer. To hold otherwise would render divisions (A)(3), (A)(4) and (B) of R.C. 2152.13 superfluous. The point of both (A)(3) and (A)(4) is to provide notice to the child that the state intends to seek a SYO disposition. Once this occurs, the juvenile court is required, under R.C. 2152.13(B) to "hold a preliminary hearing to determine if there is probable cause that the child committed the act charged and is by age eligible for, or required to receive, a serious youthful offender dispositional sentence." If the court finds that such probable cause exists, the child is entitled to a speedy trial right pursuant to division (C).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re K.A.

3. “), appeals the decision of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Juvenile Division (”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re K.A.