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Backlash in Kansas?
Judging by these two short pieces–one yesterday, one today–the Kansas Supreme Court’s decision last Friday to extend to juvenile defendants the right to a jury trial has prompted som… more »
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Backlash in Kansas?
Mark Sorkin wrote 1 month ago: Judging by these two short pieces–one yesterday, one today–the Kansas Supreme Court … more »
Kansas Supreme Court Grants Juvs Right to Jury
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Mark Sorkin wrote 1 month ago: The Kansas Supreme Court ruled 6-1 today to grant all juveniles facing prosecution the right to a ju … more »
Weekend Processing for NYC Juv Arrests
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Mark Sorkin wrote 1 month ago: Thanks to a recent decision by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York City has become the first jurisdict … more »
Poetic Justice
Mark Sorkin wrote 1 month ago: Stopping by woods on a possibly snowy evening last December, a large group of young people broke int … more »
Missing: Public Defenders in Washington State
Mark Sorkin wrote 2 months ago: From Pennsylvania to Washington, where, the Olympian reports, legal aid for indigent juvenile offend … more »
JLC Files Petition to Protect Youth Without Counsel
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Mark Sorkin wrote 2 months ago: The Juvenile Law Center has sent a petition to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court requesting immediate r … more »
Lost Boys in Baltimore
Mark Sorkin wrote 3 months ago: Caseworkers in Baltimore have lost track of more than 100 of the young offenders they are supposed t … more »
Houston (Palm) Oilers
Mark Sorkin wrote 3 months ago: When you think of cronyism, you don’t immediately think of public defenders. They just don … more »
8th Grader Criminaly Charged
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Tony wrote 3 months ago: I was watching the 10 o’clock news tonight and seen something that made me laugh… A midd … more »
IF YOUR CHILD IS ARRESTED ITS NOT KID STUFF
nancyblog wrote 3 months ago: Should kids who commit crimes be punished or rehabilitated? The American justice system swings back … more »
Privacy Rights and Wrongs in Wisconsin
Mark Sorkin wrote 3 months ago: Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle, a Democrat, vetoed a bill yesterday that would have stripped privacy r … more »
12-Year-Old Boy Kills His Mother's Assailant
Mark Sorkin wrote 3 months ago: This page-one story in today’s Washington Post describes the terrifying scene that confronted … more »
Nevada Judge to Rule on Juv Sex Offender Laws
Mark Sorkin wrote 4 months ago: The new juvenile sex offender laws in the state of Nevada, as laid out in Assembly Bill 579, are so … more »
Judges Gone Wild: Homeschooling Edition
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ElfNinosMom wrote 4 months ago: A court in California has ruled that parents cannot homeschool their children, unless they have a te … more »
chins up
wordsmythe wrote 4 months ago: When my son’s probation officer called back, he said that he had also had trouble getting appropri … more »
Wash State: No Jury Trial Rights for Violent Juvs
Mark Sorkin wrote 4 months ago: The Washington State Supreme Court ruled yesterday that a juvenile charged with a violent crime has … more »
DC Rally, will you be there?
tnmom06 wrote 4 months ago: Can you see the simularity? Posted by: “Children Need Both Parents … more »
Defendant in Shaloh Joseph Case to Stay in Juv Detention
Mark Sorkin wrote 4 months ago: The 12-year-old Florida boy charged with fatally beating his 17-month-old cousin will spend at least … more »
Torture in Ohio
Mark Sorkin wrote 5 months ago: When Sheila Clark came home from work last Friday in Hanover Township, a rural town near Cincinnati, … more »
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