Judicial hypocrisy on juvenile sentencing?
As Wisconsin prepares to try two children as adults in an attempted murder case allegedly inspired by the mythical Slenderman, the prosecution of two preteens in adult court challenges our…
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Football Players Charged With Attempted Rape Of Special-Education Student
Five football players from a Kirkland, Washington, high school were charged in juvenile court Friday for allegedly trying to sodomize a special-education student with a broomstick, The Seattle Times reported….
Justice Deferred Is Justice Denied By Jed S. Rakoff | The New York Review Of Books
So-called “deferred prosecutions” were developed in the 1930s as a way of helping juvenile offenders. A juvenile who had been charged with a crime would agree with the prosecutor to…