A pre-recorded streaming VIDEO replay of one session from the February 2019 live seminar, 49th Annual Criminal Law Seminar.
Note: Your GAL certificate may be found at the front of your written materials.
Sponsored by Virginia CLE® in cooperation with the Criminal Law Section of the Virginia State Bar
This session covers transfer, intent to certify, and the serious offender statute–how these options actually work and why they exist. The serious offender statute gives judges wide latitude on review and is based on the idea that adolescents have the potential to be rehabilitated and the statute incentivizes working to do so while they are in DJJ. Also covered–what needs to be in the Order for Commitment and the evidence-based changes that DJJ has made to the length-of-stay guidelines for non-serious offender commitments.