Sentence examples for direct file from inspiring English sources

"I lived in a world before we had direct file discretion, and it was a nightmare," Mr. Suthers said.

And prosecutors say that amendments passed in 2010, limiting direct file against 14- and 15-year-olds to the most serious cases, have helped.

Under Ms. Nikkel's proposal, juvenile defendants in direct file cases could ask judges to decide whether they should be tried as adults.

Prosecutors would also be limited to using direct file in cases of murder and certain other violent crimes and sexual assaults.

The Denver district attorney, Mitchell R. Morrissey, said that doing away with direct file would draw out litigation, cost more money and make Colorado less safe.

According to the Colorado Juvenile Defender Coalition, a legal advocacy group that supports revamping Colorado's law, about 14 states have some sort of direct file system allowing prosecutors to bypass juvenile courts.

even though direct filing is "a given" in other countries, the network reported.

Efforts to allow direct filing have been opposed by the big tax companies.

Lenny Goldberg, executive director of the California Tax Reform Association, said Intuit tried to thwart efforts in that state to allow direct filing of state tax returns over the Internet.

He warned that other countries with direct filing have experienced disruptions, which have been more catastrophic because there were no alternatives.

Under a 2005 agreement that lasts for four years, certain tax preparers, including the two big tax software companies, agreed to take part in the Free File program as long as the I.R.S. did not allow direct filing.