Juvenile Crimes
Experienced juvenile crime legal assistance across California — protecting young futures and pursuing the best possible outcome.
How We Defend Juvenile Crimes Cases
Juvenile court is a different world with different rules. The wrong outcome can derail college applications, military service, and career options for life.
We work with families and the court to pursue informal handling, diversion, and sealed records whenever possible.
Welfare & Institutions Code 654 informal probation, 725 diversion, and 790 deferred entry of judgment all allow eligible minors to avoid a sustained petition entirely. Identifying the right pathway at the detention hearing is decisive.
School-related incidents trigger their own parallel discipline track — expulsion hearings, IEP/504 implications, and Title IX exposure. We coordinate with education-law counsel to keep your child enrolled and on-track.
What's at Stake
- ▸Informal probation under WIC 654 (no formal adjudication)
- ▸Formal probation under WIC 602 with terms and conditions
- ▸Commitment to juvenile camp or Secure Youth Treatment Facility
- ▸Transfer to adult court for 16+ on serious felonies (WIC 707)
- ▸Restitution, community service, and ordered counseling
How We Fight Back
- Diversion and informal handling pre-petition
- Challenges to school resource officer interrogations
- Miranda violations and parental notification issues
- Records sealing under WIC 781 / 786
- Detention-hearing release advocacy at the first appearance
- Opposition to WIC 707 transfer to adult court
How Your Case Will Be Handled
We meet — in person, by phone, or by video — to hear your side, review every document, and identify the prosecution's theory before it solidifies.
We send our own investigators after the witnesses, the surveillance, the bodycam, and the records the State would rather you never see.
Motions to suppress, Pitchess motions, expert retention, and negotiation — every lever pulled before a jury is ever empaneled.
Dismissal, reduction, diversion, or a trial verdict — we prepare every case as if it will be tried, because the State takes notice when a defense lawyer means it.
Juvenile Crimes FAQs
Every Hour Matters in a Juvenile Crimes Case.
Speak directly with Andrei Lapine. Free, confidential, and available 24/7 for urgent matters.
Related Defense Areas
Charges often overlap. If your case involves more than juvenile crimes, we defend these related matters across California.
