Question: Is it possible for a class 4 felony criminal damage charge to be reduced to a lesser charge if it is a first time offense for a 10 year old?
Answer: When you commit a crime in our society, you
have to be punished. How much punishment a criminal gets depends on how
bad their crime was, and whether or not this person has ever done anything
bad before. The punishment for a crime depends on the seriousness of the
crime.
Felonies are usually punished accordingly:
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Minimum |
Maximum |
| For a class 2 felony |
4 years |
10 years |
| For a class 3 felony |
2.5 years |
7 years |
| For a class 4 felony |
1.5 years |
3 years |
| For a class 5 felony |
9 months |
2 years |
| For a class 6 felony |
6 months |
1.5 years |
As you can tell, the punishment varies. This depends
on your past. If you have never committed a crime before, you may get
the smaller sentence. The degree of your punishment depends on the prosecutor
or county attorney - that is, the person charging you with the crime for
the state.
Since your question refers to a 10 year olds first offense,
it would fall within the juvenile rules. Arizona Law (ARS
8-321) gives the county attorney the option to 'divert' the accused
juvenile's crime to a 'community based alternative program' or to a 'diversion
program administered by the juvenile court'. What this means is that your
crime may be punished by dropping the felony charge, and having you complete
a class, program, or some combination, at the option of the county attorney
or prosecutor. This is optional.
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breadan from MI said:
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On 05/29/04
Debbie from AZ said:
I just think it is so sad that the society we now live in have made it a mission to punish our kids for being kids. Like getting suspended from school for throwing a piece of paper, jumping over a bush or saying a bad word. Or getting a year of supervised probation, a six week class and community service for being in a car with an adult after curfew. And they say that America is the land of the free? Free for who? Certainly not our kids.
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On 02/11/04
William from MD said:
Man this site just makes me want to hurt people more. I want to break every law that this site try to make kids not break just because we are being depicted as animals who just want to T.P. houses and have parties with beer. Although all of that is fun, its not all we children do... we also have underage sex and cause unwated pregnancys.
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On 02/10/04
anve from AZ said:
i write in phx,az and have been for two years now, and iv never been caught all i gotta say about this site, that its a waste of web space. all this money and effort spent on trying to keep americas youth from expressing themselfs, could be going to something good for this country like getting the war monger bush out of offic for good.....
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On 11/18/03
Sensibility from FL said:
*Sigh* its a minor offence... graffiti i mean... This whole web site in general is disturbing to me... children arn't menaces to society.. why does this site feel the need to express its message through instilling fear in our youth. It's going to take good parental guidance to prevent these situations...not some website.
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