Rather, the goal of ChooseMyPlate is to help Americans make smarter food choices from every food group represented, strike a balance between food and physical activity that helps to use the food for energy, stay within suggested daily calorie needs, and to get more nutrition from the calories that are consumed.
In most states, a juvenile offender must be at least 16 to be eligible for waiver to adult court. But, in a number of states, minors as young as 13 could be subjected to a waiver petition. And a few states allow children of any age to be tried as adults for certain types of crimes, such as homicide.nd some state laws require that juveniles be tried as adults in certain types of cases, like homicide. (To learn more about state laws requiring juveniles to be tried as adults, see the Automatic Transfer Laws and Reverse Transfer Hearings section below.).
Most probation officers work with either adults or juveniles. Only in small, mostly rural, jurisdictions do probation officers counsel both adults and juveniles. Pre-trial services officers investigate an offenderâs background to determine if that offender can be safely allowed back into the community before his or her trial date.