Section 30 Useof IncriminatingStatements

• Library: Juvenile Law 2011

If a juvenile makes a statement that would be admissible in a juvenile court adjudication and the petition is subsequently dismissed to allow prosecution under the general law, that statement is admissible at the criminal trial as long as the juvenile was also warned of the possibility of being prosecuted as an adult. State v. Wright, 515 S.W.2d 421 (Mo. banc 1974). Admissibility of a juvenile’s statement in a subsequent criminal trial “is determined from the totality of the circumstances on a case by case...