t is happening with the juvenile offender and centers on the crime. Joseph L. Spaeth, juvenile division managing attorney in the San Francisco County Public Defense's Office stated:
When we create a presumption based merely on the crime, which is what 707 does, we essentially are telling the court that it isn't the nature of the kid's situation and how he or she came to commit a particular crime, but what the crime is, that determines whether they are found amenable to juvenile court treatment.
Even if an juvenile offender fits the first four criteria to remain in juvenile court, a serous crime will abrogate any impact of the four criteria in keeping the teenager in juvenile court.
Judicial waiver, or judicial transfer, is the most widely applied mechanism to remove juvenile offenders to criminal jurisdiction. In all but three states, statutes, like the one described in the previous section, empower a juvenile court judge to decide, with varying degrees of statutory guidance, whether youth are beyond rehabilitation or simply too "dangerous" to remai
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