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When a Child is Accused of Killing and a Law Stays Firm

Date: June 22, 2000
Author: Rick Bragg
QUOTE: Nate...is charged with a murder that demands harsh punishment at an age that would seem to beg for some leniency, but in a state where there is no middle ground.

ABSTRACT: An adult crime deserves an adult penalty, but is a 13 year-old youth really and adult and really developed enough to be responsible in adult terms for having committed a murder--or does he deserve the support and rehabilitations of the juvenile system that being tried as a youth would make him eligible for?

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