Updated: A 17-year-old sexual assault victim is no longer facing a possible contempt charge after she revealed the name of her alleged juvenile attackers on Twitter.
A Utah mother who says she felt intimidated by a state-court judge into agreeing on the spot to cut her 13-year-old daughter’s hair in court during a May hearing says…
In today's podcast, ABA Journal Web producer Lee Rawles speaks with Susan Madden Lankford about her recently released book "Born, Not Raised: Voices from Juvenile Hall."
The detention of a 17-year-old alleged rape victim by Sacramento County, Calif., prosecutors has drawn protests from victims’ rights advocates and the girl’s lawyer.
Jury selection took place Monday and opening arguments began Tuesday in the trial of a 16-year-old being prosecuted as an adult in Pennsylvania in the slaying of a 28-year-old law…
Supreme Court justices weighing the constitutionality of life-without-parole sentences for juveniles implicated in murders appeared troubled on Tuesday by laws that make the punishment mandatory.
A 17-year-old sophomore described by a prosecutor as an individual “who’s not well,” was charged today as a juvenile with multiple murder counts in this week’s Ohio high school shooting.
A Detroit judge refused Tuesday to allow a learning disabled teenager to withdraw his guilty plea to a quadruple murder that an admitted hit man has confessed to committing.
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