Adult Directory 2013

D. Children Charged as Adults (Title 16, DC Code)
In DC, youth can be prosecuted as an adult in three ways:
• U.S. Attorney’s Office charges a 16 or 17 year old with one or more crimes
enumerated under DC Code § 16-2301 (murder, first degree sexual assault, armed
robbery, etc.)
• Office of the Attorney General files a motion to move the case from the Family Court
to the Criminal Court. The Family Court judge holds a hearing to determine the
youth’s rehabilitative prospects and the public’s interest to transfer. Youth must be at
least 15 years old and charged with committing an offense that would be an adult level
felony.
• Youth 16 or 17 commits a moving traffic offense.
Detained youth (male and female) charged as adults are held in a segregated unit at the
Correctional Treatment Facility (CTF), 1901 D Street, SE. After the youth is sentenced
(as an adult to confinement) the youth remains at CTF “juvenile unit” until his 18 th
birthday. Thereafter, the confinement of the 18 year old is assumed by the Federal
Bureau of Prisons.
Note: Children convicted as adults are not automatically emancipated. Although
convicted as an adult, the child may still be entitled to certain educational, medical and
social service benefits. If the child was involved in the juvenile, special education, and/or
neglect systems prior his adult conviction, rehabilitative services through those systems
should be explored as a sentencing alternative.
E. Independent Sentencing Experts
Bowman-Rivas Consulting, LLC - 8775 Centre Park Drive, Columbia, MD 21045
bowman_rivas@earthlink.net (410) 608-6344, Fax (866) 384-9779
Rebecca Bowman-Rivas, Mario R. Rivas, Co-Owners
Forensic social work, capital and non-capital mitigation and investigation, bio-psychosocial
assessment; release/re-entry discharge planning, expert testimony.
Specialty Areas & Populations: forensically committed defendants (Incompetent to
Stand Trial/Not Criminally Responsible); chronic mental illness; multiple-diagnosed
(including mental illness/substance abuse), sex offenders, homelessness, HIV+,
domestic violence, youth, wrongfully-convicted, veterans, crisis intervention, and
special education. Fee for service; accepts CJA court appointments. Spanish
David C. Heebner, LLC - 4143 Robert Paris Court, Chantilly, VA 20151
(703) 815-1199, Fax (703) 815-2089
Assessment and evaluation services, court testimony of sex and substance abuse cases,
alternative sentencing reports for persons with sex offending behavior. Intensive
outpatient, individual and group counseling, psychotherapy, psycho- educational and
life skills treatment. Use of polygraph and Abel Assessment as needed. Individual
($95 per session) and group ($80). Non-participating insurance providers.
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