Arrest/ holding cell as a minor

[Sirius black]

Jurisdiction

Maryland

As a 15 year old in public high school, I want to know what ends up on my criminal record and if my school/teachers have access to it. For example, if I am arrested at a nonviolent protest, what will happen to me. Also, if someone in my situation were caught smoking what would happen to them? Essentially, what can I actually be arrested for and how would I get out of it. Could the family simply pay the bail in both examples given?

 

[army judge]

if I am arrested at a nonviolent protest, what will happen to me. Also, if someone in my situation were caught smoking what would happen to them? Essentially, what can I actually be arrested for and how would I get out of it. Could the family simply pay the bail in both examples given?

You're a minor, mate.
You have no rights.
Any rights owed to you, flow through your parents or guardians.

If you are arrested, your parents will be notified.
You have the right NOT to answer any questions about the allegations the police lodge against you.
You have the right to notify your parents, or request the police so notify your parents.

The police will often try to question uninformed minors, so be smart, and say, "Sorry, officer, but I want my mother and father to be present before I will answer any questions about the charges pending against me."

Then, stick to your guns and STFU.

It is okay to give ane, date of birth, parent's name, address, telephone number, etc...

Don't discuss the charges or the allegations.

Be cooperative, remain calm, be polite, follow all commands given to you by the police, and don't resist.

Generally, MOST juvenile arrest records and charges aren't easily uncovered by others.

In some cases, the juvenile court, after a due process hearing, can bind you over to adult court.
If that happens, you'll be tried, jailed, and treated like an adult.

I suggets you simply avoid protesing and violating any law, as an adult or a minor.

Why?

Just read the sad stories of [people who have run afoul of the criminal justice system.
Many can't vote, own firearms, get decent jobs, or even rent decent apartments.

My standard admonishment: DON"T BREAK THEIR LAWS.


Or, as Jim Croce once sang:

Uptown got it's hustlers
The bowery got it's bums
42nd street got big Jim walker
He's a pool shootin' son of a gun
Yeah, he big and dumb as a man can come
But he stronger than a country hoss
And when the bad folks all get together at night
You know they all call big Jim boss, just because
And they say

You don't tug on superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off that old lone ranger
And you don't mess around with Jim

Well outta south Alabama came a country boy
He say I'm lookin' for a man named Jim
I am a pool shootin' boy
My name Willie McCoy
But down home they call me slim
Yeah I'm lookin' for the king of 42nd street
He drivin' a drop top cadillac
Last week he took all my money
And it may sound funny
But I come to get my money back
And everybody say Jack don't you know

And you don't tug on superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off that old lone ranger
And you don't mess around with Jim

Well a hush fell over the pool room
Jimmy come boppin' in off the street
And when the cuttin' were done
The only part that wasn't bloody
Was the soles of the big man's feet
Yeah he were cut in in bout a hundred places
And he were shot in a couple more
And you better believe
They sung a different kind of story
When big Jim hit the floor now they say

You don't tug on superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off that old lone ranger
And you don't mess around with slim

Yeah, big Jim got his hat
Find out where it's at
And it's not hustlin' people strange to you
Even if you do got a two piece custom made pool cue

Yeah you don't tug on superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off the old lone ranger
And you don't mess around with slim