Legal Question in Criminal Law in Florida

What do you mean by "used against?" If you mean that the person is charged with a new crime, 15 years after the juvenile case, that juvenile case will not add points to the person's scoresheet. However, a judge or prosecutor may still consider that prior history when trying to formulate a new sentence.

You may want to have your attorney review the score sheet to see what exceptions apply - generally juvenile crimes, and crimes that happened 10 years before the last offense should not be used to count points on the score sheet.

Juvenile dispositions of offenses committed by the offender within 5 years before the current charges are included in the offender�s prior record for sentencing purposes on the score sheet when the offense would have been a crime had the offender been an adult rather than a juvenile. So 15 years is outside the range for scoring purposes.

However as one colleague has indicated, the crime can still be considered even if not counted or scored especially for purposes of sentencing.

Natalie Hall, Esq.

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