From A Lawyer’s View: Juvenile Collateral Consequences and DMV
There are a host of criminal offenses that result in license revocation upon conviction. When a person is convicted of such a triggering offense, the clerk notifies DMV of the conviction. A juvenile adjudication is not, however, defined as a conviction in G.S. 20-4.01. Juvenile adjudications have many collateral consequences which have been discussed in prior blog posts. Consequences to a youth’s privilege to drive have received less attention. Perhaps because 16- and 17-year-old youths charg
A Message From OJD
Since its inception, The Office of the Juvenile Defender (OJD) has worked as advocates to improve racial disparities, unfair treatment, and the injustice faced by Black and Brown children in the juvenile court system. We have understood that these children are born facing an insurmountable problem that they did not ask for which then spans their entire lives. To our juvenile defense lawyers who work tirelessly to represent the casts of black and brown children in a system that feels to be workin