Trying to Handle Old Juvenile Charges-I'm Now 20

My question involves juvenile law in the State of: Florida and County of: Pinellas.

My question is in regards to how I can rectify two charges back from when I was 17. The two charges are felonies.

Basically, what happened when I got the charges is I had a lot of things going on that I couldn't just stop so I can go to their juvenile program that they were recommending attent for 9-12 mos. So I decided I would take matters into my own hands, so I moved to Texas for about 3 years and went to college and worked. I haven't talked to anyone from Florida or recieved any mail from Florida. Now I'm comming back to Florida again to live because I have some things I need to handle. Im curious if I can take care of these charges as an adult now, if they will go on my adult record, and if you think I will have to serve a little time? I mainly concerned about it being on my record though, it would look very bad in the type of business I'm in.

Thank you for your responses! :)

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Quoting Clearwater_Marco

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My question involves juvenile law in the State of: Florida and County of: Pinellas.

My question is in regards to how I can rectify two charges back from when I was 17. The two charges are felonies.

Basically, what happened when I got the charges is I had a lot of things going on that I couldn't just stop so I can go to their juvenile program that they were recommending attent for 9-12 mos. So I decided I would take matters into my own hands, so I moved to Texas for about 3 years and went to college and worked. I haven't talked to anyone from Florida or recieved any mail from Florida. Now I'm comming back to Florida again to live because I have some things I need to handle. Im curious if I can take care of these charges as an adult now, if they will go on my adult record, and if you think I will have to serve a little time? I mainly concerned about it being on my record though, it would look very bad in the type of business I'm in.

Thank you for your responses! :)

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No one on an internet forum can answer your question because we do not know what all of the facts.

The best thing to do will be for you to take copies of all legal records to an attorney for a consult. You can get a low cost consult by calling the Florida Bar Lawyer refferal service at 1-800-342-8011.

Thank you for that number, I'll give them a call. I understand it is sort of a complex situation, not sort of the thing most people would be able to say off the top of their head without knowing specific statutes.

I was just curious as to if anyone may know the maximum age the of jurisdiction of the 6th Circuit Court. If anyone has any type of documention that has statues pertaining this?

And is their a sort of roll over effect of old juv. charges into the adult justice system?

Thank you for your thoughts.
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Did you stick around long enough to know if they charged you as a juvie or were you charged as an adult?

In either case, there is probably a couple of warrants out for your arrest.

The first time you get stopped in Florida you may well be taken to jail.

Were you ever stopped and ID'd by the police in Texas? There can still be warrants in Florida that were not entered into NCIC and thus would not show up in Texas.

You need to hire a Florida attorney to research the status of those cases and make whatever arrangements are necessary.