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Skilled Juvenile Lawyers Defending Your Child for Crimes on School Campus
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As a result of the tragic Columbine and Virginia Tech shootings, crimes that are related to school campuses or occur on school campus are punished in a particularly severe manner. It is common for minor incidents to be treated as major crimes if the incident takes place on a school campus or involves the possibility of taking place on a school campus. Crimes such as having a weapon, making threats (known as “terrorist threats”), fighting (known as “assault” or “battery”), drugs (drug paraphernalia, drug possession or drug sales), disputes with faculty members, sex crimes (which may even be called molestation, child abuse, sexual abuse or rape), vandalism, or even writing private thoughts in a personal journal can be twisted into extremely severe felonies by school officials and law enforcement.
| After the Virginia Tech and Columbine incidents, two recurring questions were asked: "Were there any clues hinting that was going to happen? “ and "Was there anything anyone could have done to prevent this?" If a child is accused a school related crime, a juvenile judge, juvenile prosecutor or school official will seek a severe punishment in hopes of preventing any future tragedies that should have been foreseen. The juvenile court is likely to seek punishment to the maximum extent of the juvenile law. The juvenile court aims to prevent blame for any school related tragedies that result in the future by a child who was in their courtroom and not punished severely enough the first time. |
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No juvenile judge, juvenile prosecutor or school official wants to be placed in that position - so to play it safe, they are very aggressive with prosecuting children in these circumstances. They may seek a number of punishments and sentences such as juvenile hall, youth camp, or placement in another state facility in order to ensure their own "tough on crime" reputation be protected.
The on-campus tragedies that have taken place in the recent past are horrific and devastating to the entire nation. Unfortunately these tragedies have also led to the vicious prosecution of non-violent children who pose no danger to others. Many children who have committed minor offenses have been taken to state facilities until the age of 18, or in some cases much longer, until the age of 25. This is a great injustice. That is why the juvenile criminal defense attorneys at Terani Law Firm are so passionate about defending children. There is nothing our juvenile lawyers hate seeing more than families torn apart over courtroom politics. Our firm handles all kinds of juvenile crimes, such as juvenile theft, juvenile assault, weapons on school campus, juvenile sex crimes, juvenile drugs, juvenile terrorist threats, juvenile vandalism, and every other kind of charge - including those juvenile charges that do not take place in school. However, when it comes to crimes that are school related, our juvenile attorneys know exactly how to handle the problem.
Our criminal lawyers will do anything and everything within their power to defend your child. We will conduct all necessary research, witness interviews, gather character references, and assemble all the proof possible to prove your child is not a criminal and doesn't deserve to be locked up. Terani Law Firm's criminal defense attorneys will stand up to law enforcement officers and courts who are being overly aggressive with your child. Some of our attorneys are former juvenile judges, allowing our team to know precisely what to do to minimize the damage in any given situation. Children can be taken advantage of by school staff and police, tricked into making damaging statements, abused, and denied their rights. If any such things occurred we will be sure that we fight any harmful effects caused by these rights violations. In addition to juvenile hall, camp and other state facilities, your child’s future may be at great risk as well. Employers and Universities conduct thorough criminal background checks before accepting an individual as an employee or new student. We know that children make mistakes, and we fight to ensure such charges don’t blemish your child’s record and in turn crush their dreams for the future.
If your child has been accused of a crime on school campus but has not yet been formally charged, you MUST contact us RIGHT NOW! We may be able to prevent the filing of criminal charges by coming to an informal, out of court, resolution. It is much easier to prevent the filing of a charge when the case is in the hands of an investigator or school official as opposed to having to deal with juvenile judges and prosecutors. Do not wait, contact Terani Law Firm immediately so we can take action to prevent charges.
With so much on the line in cases such as these, we emphatically urge you not to gamble with your child's future. Please call us today so we may discuss your families situation in detail and come up with a plan of action to minimize or eliminate the amount of trouble your child is in and alleviate the pain you are feeling. We've handled this many times before, we know what you are going through, and we are here to help.
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