Juvenile Rights

             Law constituting various sets of rules and regulations survives to
             date and came into existence in order to safeguard the rights of its
             people, its followers. However, how these laws are formulated and used in
             order to defend the innocent and punish the guilty still depends largely on
             judges that preside over cases. Often, it has been observed that these laws
             are trampled as well as treated according to the free will of the courts
             thereby affecting the defendant and influencing the decision of the
             arbiter. However, for the public's benefit and to further help the people
             (who are charged with crimes and are sentenced not according to what they
             deserve) as much as possible, our legal system is divided into various
             stratum based on the authority and power each layer of the legal system
             enjoys. On the same account, the Supreme Court of the United States enjoys
             an immense amount of authority and therefore plays a major role in
             recognizing the loopholes in the system thereby shouldering massive moral,
             legal and social responsibility. Hence, the Supreme Court of the United
             States has made some of the highly significant legal decisions thereby
             greatly impacting the right of both the children and the adults charged
             with major or minor crimes. However, legal rights and rules for adults and
             juveniles are different. Therefore, in California, as in all states, there
             exists an entirely separate court system for persons under the age of 18,
             who are known as juveniles or minors. The primary reason to establish these
             juvenile courts is to provide thorough assistance to the children that are
             charged with some minor or major offense but who can be successfully
             reformed through rigorous counseling, adequate education and guidance,
             rather than punishing them in the adult criminal justice system.
             Nonetheless, history unfolding the juvenile cases reveals that many a times
             juveniles have been deprived of the various essential le...

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