 Hi, I'm David Cantor with the Law Offices of David Michael Cantor, and today I'm going to talk about juvenile adjudication hearings in Arizona. What is an adjudication hearing? Basically, that's just a trial. In juvenile court, you're not entitled to a jury trial. You're only entitled to a bench trial or trial in front of the judge. Here's how it normally progresses, and these are the stages. First there's opening statements, prosecutor then defense. Then the prosecutor presents his witnesses. This will be the police, civilians, experts. There's direct examination, we do cross examination, they do redirect. Occasionally we're allowed to do what's called a surcross. We get a second bite at the apple if they went into something they weren't supposed to go into. Once the prosecution rests, we move for directed verdict that's rarely granted, but sometimes it is, and then we present the defense case. We call our own witnesses, or we can recall the state's witnesses. We present usually the defendant's testimony or the juvenile's testimony, and sometimes we present our own experts. Now once we rest, the state can present rebuttal witnesses, then we both do closing arguments. Now the judge will render his adjudication or his verdict. Either he will say, I'm adjudicating you delinquent, that means guilty, or non-delinquent, which means not guilty. Once that occurs, the judge can do a disposition hearing or sentencing. That can occur right on the spot, or the judge can set it out to a disposition hearing that's 30 days later if the juvenile's in custody, 45 days later if they're not in custody. The judge can order a predisposition report. We can prepare what's called our disposition memorandum. We will include letters, photos, copies of your awards, psychological reports if we need to. Anything we need to show to get you the lowest possible outcome. So if you or a loved one have been charged in Arizona in juvenile court, give us a call. Meet with us. It doesn't cost anything to meet with us, but it does take 30 minutes. And we'll go over your case from top to bottom and hopefully find a way out of this for you. Take care.