Mandatory Investigation of Alternatives for Youth Offenders

SITC Title 9 § 9.12.1235

Tribe: Squaxin Island Tribe of the Squaxin Island Reservation

§9.12.1235 Sentencing for offenders under the age of eighteen. All persons subject to this code who are under the age of eighteen (18) shall be tried as all other offenders. At sentencing, however, the Court is required to investigate alternates to fine and/or imprisonment, to include counseling, community service, treatment, and other appropriate alternates. If the Court chooses to employ a fine and/or imprisonment as punishment, it may do so as a part or the whole of the offender’s sentence. However, the Court must justify in a written opinion its reasons for so doing.

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