The Montana Supreme Court reversed and remanded a violation order, finding that the absence of a revocation petition violated due process. The court stated in relevant part: The court must also ensure that the youth is afforded the procedural protections § 41-5-1431, MCA, requires before imposing any new custodial disposition or registration requirement. The missing element…
The Supreme Court of Montana reversed a trial court’s decision denying a sentence reduction for a young adult who was convicted of a homicide offense when he was 16 years old. Noting that transferring a youth to adult court cannot mean that the state “forget[s] about his age,” the Court relies on the juvenile court…
This infographic details statistics on the overrepresentation of Native and Indigenous communities in the criminal legal system, noting in particular that the incarceration rate of American Indian/Alaska Native communities increased 60 percent from 1990 to 2020. It cautions that current data collection practices on Native and Indigenous communities are often incomplete and inaccurate due to…
