If a seventeen year old is arrested for assault, should a newspaper print the persons name and full address?

Answer 1

Depends entirely on the laws in your state as related to the release of information on minors charged with a criminal offense.

Believe me, your local paper knows the law... so than YES, it is legal in your state and YES they are going to print it.

Answer 2

Don't know the legal answer but on a moral level yes. However if the person is later cleared of the assault charge an equal amount of print space (and location) should be used to publish that as well.

Answer 3

Depends on the jurisdiction.

In some jurisdictions, the media outlets can not provide ANY information that could be used to identify the minor, without the specific authorisation of the courts. This includes names of family members, and especially addresses.

If the teen is a not some looser who is incarcerated more than he is on the streets, the courts may allow it, but if he is a first time offender, a simple assault would result in the courts telling the media to shove it (request wise).

Answer 4

I think it depends on if the person is being charged as a minor. The paper has the right to print all arrests although printing the full address of anyone is not the smartest idea.

Answer 5

My brother had the comparable ingredient and he merely have been given an excellent activity travelling the country and getting paid an outragous volume. The arrest will maximum in all hazard instruct yet finding on what he is going into some won't care. good success on your son. And as long as he maintains to be out of undertaking any further, he would be nice.

Answer 6

i think yes to the name and place of living not full address at 17 i was married with a child and was classed as an adult so people who brake the law even at 17 should act like a adult also people in the community can be aware of what and who are causing problems in there area

Answer 7

Not unless the court has lifted the normal reporting restrictions (and why would they in this case?) The law is that no matter relating to any person involved in the offence shall while he is under the age of 18 be included in any publication if it is likely to lead members of the public to identify him as a person involved in the offence. That means that his name and address are definitely not to be published . Nor are details of his school (if any) or any photos. (UK)

Answer 8

NO! This country is being driven by the ' they need a good thrashing' syndrome. The police are being driven by quotas for crimes resolved . The newspapers are being driven by circulation figures and sales. The public are being driven by a good scandal, preferably local. Out of this comes a families
shame and a youth who one day may have made a go of his life. Let justice take its true course but let us not take entertainment from it.

Answer 9

Assuming that this was in the UK, then I don't believe that newspapers can..

I was involved in a similar situation when I was 17, and the legal documents were marked "not suitable for press" (or words amounting to that)

Read this link (fourth paragraph down):

http://www.ndsn.org/jan98/intl1.html

Answer 10

Legally they can where I live, personally I believe it is morally and ethically irresponsible. I say this because a person should be innocent until proven guilty. I have yet to see a newspaper rectify any trouble they may have caused someone who was not guilty of charges pressed against them. This in my mind is a crime.