This training equips defense attorneys and juvenile justice professionals with the specialized skills needed to provide high-quality, zealous representation for youth clients under Chapter 938.

Key Takeaways:

• Stated-Interest Advocacy: Learn to maintain client-directed representation while ethically managing third-party pressure from parents or guardians.
• Chapter 938 Procedural Mastery: Navigate the distinct stages of the juvenile roadmap, from intake and detention (TPC) hearings to plea colloquies, trials, and post-disposition representation.
• Developmental Communication: Master evidence-based interviewing techniques, like the "T-Funnel" method, to effectively communicate with youth and accommodate cognitive differences.
• Strategic Litigating: Identify critical windows for motion practice, including challenging strict statutory time limits, moving to suppress unrecorded interrogations, and raising competency concerns.
• Dispositions & Consequences: Understand the full spectrum of dispositional options, how to secure stayed orders, and strategies to fight severe consequences like adult court waivers and sex offender registration.
• Racial Justice Advocacy: Gain actionable strategies to confront systemic disparities and adultification bias by explicitly raising race in the courtroom.