Juveniles: transfer to court of criminal jurisdiction: offense.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide information on the impact of this bill on existing cases or the consideration process for prosecutors.

Juveniles and Serious Crimes

This law would allow prosecutors to move certain young people accused of planning dangerous attacks from juvenile court to adult criminal court.

What This Bill Does

• Adds conspiracy to commit murder, where the plan is to cause multiple deaths or target a school, place of worship, or other public location, to the list of crimes that can lead to a minor being moved from juvenile court to adult criminal court.

Who It Names or Affects

• Young people aged 14 and older who are suspected of planning dangerous attacks that could harm many people or target specific places like schools or churches.
• Prosecutors who decide whether to move young suspects from juvenile court to adult criminal court.

Terms To Know

Conspiracy

When two or more people agree to commit a crime together.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify what happens to young people who are already in juvenile court when this law is passed.
• It's unclear how many cases will be affected by adding this new type of crime to the list of offenses that can lead to a transfer from juvenile to adult court.

Official Summary Text

AB 1968, as amended, Gallagher.
Juveniles: transfer to court of criminal jurisdiction: offense.
Existing law, as amended by the Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act of 2016, enacted by Proposition 57 at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, authorizes the district attorney or other prosecuting officer to make a motion to transfer a minor from juvenile court to a court of criminal jurisdiction in a case in which a minor is alleged to have committed a felony when the minor was 16 years of age or older, or in a case in which a specified serious offense is alleged to have been committed by a minor when the minor was 14 or 15 years of age, but the minor was not apprehended prior to the end of juvenile court jurisdiction.
This bill would add the crime of conspiracy to commit murder
whereby the conspiracy involves premeditated planning of an attack
that is intended to cause multiple deaths or target a school, place of worship, or other public location
to the list of offenses for which a juvenile may be transferred to a court of criminal jurisdiction pursuant to the above-described provisions.

Current Bill Text

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