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    Exclamation Can a Judge Suspend a Sentence Conditioned on a Juvenile's Moving Out of the County

    My question involves juvenile law in the State of: Georgia

    One of my friends got arrested for selling drugs. She was 15 at the time. She has had multiple run ins with the law. She served a few months in RYDC then got out on a 2 year suspended sentence on the condition that she and her family move out of the county in 2 months. she's 16 now. I don't know if she officially said that on record or not, but I'm going to see if I can pull some records. She had to wear an ankle monitor ( that didn't really tell you when it was dying unless you had the charging pack on), and she was on probation.

    A couple months later she accidentally over took her medication, seroquel. She had forgotten to take it the night before and decided to take two to balance it out. About 15-20 minutes later she took two more forgetting that she had already taken the other two. She almost overdosed, and her probation officer claimed that she was abusing her medication. Also they found out that her monitor had died 3 times and no one let her know. Our theory is that since she didn't move out of the county that the judge knew that her monitor had died the first time and waited for everything to pile up against her. She's now in a group home after a mental evaluation, and I don't know when she's getting out.

    My question is, can a judge suspend a sentence with the condition that her and her family leave the county. And also, what public records can I request to see that the judge actually made that a condition to the suspended sentence.

    If there's any more information you might need, I can ask the parents or her probation officer( she's my brothers and other friends probation officer also. So I know her pretty well.)

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    Default Re: Can This Judge Just Make a Whole Family Leave the County

    You can have all the theories you want but juvenile court matters are not open to the public and the records are not public records. Seroquel is a serious drug for serious mental issues. If she's not taking the medication exactly as prescribed, she is abusing it. She needs to be monitored in a controlled environment if where she was living wasn't a place where the people were paying attention to her medication regimen.

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    Default Re: Can This Judge Just Make a Whole Family Leave the County

    Ok, so do you find everything the judge has done, including making her and her family leave the county, fair and legal?

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    Default Re: Can This Judge Just Make a Whole Family Leave the County

    Hey, nobody forced her to leave the county. She was given a choice.

    She could have declined the deal and opted for incarceration in a rehab facility (or jail) where her medications would have been controlled by somebody other than her.

    So, yes, fair and legal, given the circumstances.

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    Default Re: Can This Judge Just Make a Whole Family Leave the County

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    My question is, can a judge suspend a sentence with the condition that her and her family leave the county.
    No. And I doubt very much that is what happened. The court only has jurisdiction to determine what happens to the juvenile in the case. It cannot order everyone else in the family to do something. However, if the juvenile was ordered to treatment outside the county (which might be necessary if her own county does not have the resources), for example, it may be that her family would decide they have to go as well. I’m going to guess that the person telling you all this either misunderstood what is going on or is giving you a story for whatever reason.

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    And also, what public records can I request to see that the judge actually made that a condition to the suspended sentence.
    You likely cannot get access to any of those records; juvenile records are generally sealed and not open to the public.

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    If there's any more information you might need, I can ask the parents or her probation officer( she's my brothers and other friends probation officer also. So I know her pretty well.)
    Her probation officer should not disclose to you information that is confidential and has been sealed by the court.

    One other thought. You say your brother, this girl, and another friend all have the same probation officer. That means all 3 have had criminal problems. As much as you may like them, I will warn you that hanging out with people who commit crimes is a good way to eventually end up with criminal problems yourself. You might want to consider finding friends who don’t commit crimes.

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