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Senate advances SB 111 to third reading, tightens transfer rules for serious youth offenders
Summary
The Utah Senate on Feb. 9 advanced SB 111, a package bill that automatically transfers 16- and 17-year-olds charged with first- or second-degree murder into the adult system in specified cases and creates a certification process for other aggravated offenses; the measure passed a roll-call to be read for the third time.
Senators on Feb. 9 advanced Senate Bill 111, the "serious youth offender" measure, voting to move the bill to third reading after extended floor debate.
Sponsor Sen. Lyle W. Hilliard told the Senate the proposal is part of a broader criminal-justice package intended to address gang and youth violence and was drafted with input from juvenile court judges, the governor, the Utah Sentencing Commission, the commission on criminal and juvenile justice, and law-enforcement partners. "Let me just indicate the bill does 3 things," Hilliard said, summarizing key provisions.
Under the bill as described by Hilliard, youths 16 or 17 charged with aggravated…
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