Legal Question in Criminal Law in Michigan

csc cases involving children

1.) can a motion be filed to request that the children be evaluated, and is it best to have separate trials, or consolidated (the kids are related).


Asked on 6/04/08, 4:03 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys

Audra Arndt Audra A. Arndt & Associates, PLLC

Re: csc cases involving children

Are you talking about children that were victims of CSC? What type of evaluation are you talking about and what is your relationship to the children? Post a more detailed question so the lawyers can respond appropriately.

Whether the trials are separate or together depends on whether the perpetrator was the same, and whether the attorneys on either side, and the judge, want to have them separate or together. Sometimes it is more economical for the trial to be together, especially if the children were hurt by the same person. It also depends on how the prosecutor brings the charges, and whether he/she feels there is enough evidence to pursue charges for both children, or just one (or pursue one case, see what happens, and then pursue the second one later).

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Answered on 6/07/08, 12:18 am


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