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Kids these days

By Shawn Matlock

Welcome to Juvenile Court. The world of slightly criminal proceedings coupled with a quasi-civil nature, buttressed by everything going through the probation department...before there is probation. For anyone that has never been Juvenile Court in Texas, or at least in Tarrant County, it is a little different. Ok, it's weird. I will admit that I have never practiced in juvenile courts of other counties, but I would assume they are generally the same. In Juvy, the very nature of the proceedings is civil. It is only "quasi-criminal," or at least so say the courts. The basic terminology is different, the goals are different, and even the shot-callers are different. You see in Juvy, everything runs through the probation department. I mean everything...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Matlock Blog on February 04, 2008 (boomark / email).