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9 GCA § 7.10

Exemption from Criminal Liability Due to Juvenile Status

Guam Code AnnotatedTitle 9 — Crimes and Corrections
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No person may be tried for or convicted of an offense if:

(a)his age at the time he is charged with an offense places him within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Family Division of the Superior Court;

(b)he was made the subject of a petition to commence proceedings in the juvenile court because of having committed the offense and the juvenile court has not made an order that he be prosecuted under general law; or

(c)he was certified to the juvenile court and the juvenile court has not made an order directing that he be prosecuted under general law.

§ The story of this section

  1. Amended by P.L. 17-12 § 3 (bill & sponsor pending — earlier Legislature not yet ingested)

Interpreted by the courts:

  • 1997 Guam 13People of the Territory of Guam vs. Doreen Quichocho (1997) · cited at ¶6

Reconstructed from the Guam Code Annotated. For the authoritative version, see the official PDF.