Cleveland Criminal Law Blog

When your teen gets into legal trouble, you may not worry too much until you learn that the prosecution wants to try your child as an adult. Facing the judicial system is consequential at any age, but the process and outcome are harsher on adults than on kids. Therefore, your child is at risk of more severe penalties and lifelong effects if he or she goes through the adult criminal system.

What factors go into this decision?

A person charged with assault may not believe the charge is anything too serious. In some cases, that may be true and the charge gets dropped or reduced to time served.

However, if you commit an act of assault, do you know the type of punishment you may face? If you find yourself charged with assault, knowing the differences in charges may help you better predict the outcome.

Mass-marketing fraud is probably not a term that you're very familiar with. It's easier to explain the term by understanding the method of defrauding others. Mass-marketing fraud is a term that refers to any fraud that uses mass-communication methods. The methods of communication may include:

• The internet
• Telephone calls
• Mail delivery schemes
• In-person meetings

The goal in mass-marketing fraud cases is to make the victims transfer money to the person committing fraud. For example, a person might sign up for a "new job" and put down the $100 to start, only to find out later that no job existed.

It's not often you hear about a teen facing multiple felonies, but a teen in Ohio is facing 40 over claims that they were involved in a swatting hoax in Dodge County.

According to an article out of Dodge Co. Wisconsin, a hoax phone call had been received in March 2018 that led to the SWAT team being deployed. Through investigation, the agency was able to determine that a 17-year-old male from Youngstown, Ohio, had placed the call. Similar incidents had happened from around Mahoning County, Ohio, leading to calls across the United States. Now, 73 counts of delinquency have been filed against the teen, 40 of which are felonies and 33 of which are misdemeanors.