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Pennsylvania law mandates that juveniles be treated as adults for charges that can lead to a murder conviction, due to the gravity of the crime.
District attorneys also can seek to have any child 14 years old or older charged as an adult with any felony.Â
An attorney can petition for a case to be transferred to the juvenile system, the district attorneyâs office told LNP|LancasterOnline in 2019. A judge may or may not see fit to do so, based on the circumstances.
Apart from juvenile court, judicial procedures in criminal cases are the same regardless of a defendantâs age. A preliminary arraignment is followed by a preliminary hearing, then formal arraignment in county court, at which point a plea is entered.