Branded for Life Florida’s Prosecution of Children as Adults under its “Direct File” Statute
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Human Rights Watch
Alba Morales
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Human Rights Watch; Alba Morales. Branded for Life Florida’s Prosecution of Children as Adults under its “Direct File” Statute. Report. New York, NY: Author, 2014. Retrieved at, http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/us0414_ForUpload%202.pdf | http://perma.cc/3KT3-SW7N
Abstract
This 110-page report details the harm that results from the state’s practice of giving prosecutors full discretion to decide which children to prosecute in adult courts. More than 98 percent of the 1,500 cases of children charged as adults between 2012 and 2013 were brought by prosecutors under the direct file statute. The law offers no opportunity for a judge to review or reverse the prosecutor’s decision, no matter how unsuitable the case is for criminal court.
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Copy available from the HRW website, http://www.hrw.org/reports/2014/04/10/branded-life
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http://hdl.handle.net/10822/761183Date
2014-04-10Rights
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