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Criminal

Nov. 22, 2017

A new law to seal juvenile criminal records may soon need legislative cleanup

Though statutes designed to help juvenile law offenders seal their records may make it easier to enter adulthood with a clean slate, some prosecutors are worried those same statutes may make it harder for them to comply with Brady obligations.

A new law to seal juvenile criminal records may soon need legislative cleanup
State Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Oakland, authored SB 312, which became law in October and allows juvenile delinquents to seal their records. But prosecutors and others have noted that this can cause a Brady conflict for them if the offender is tried for a crime as an adult.

Though statutes designed to help juvenile delinquents seal their records make it easier to enter adulthood with a clean slate, some prosecutors are worried those same laws may make it harder for them to comply with Brady obligations.

Beginning in 2014, the state Legislature began passing a series of bills making it possible for juvenile offenders who had completed their criminal justice system obligations to have records of lesser c...

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