An 11-year-old boy who police say shot and killed his father’s eight-months-pregnant girlfriend in the family home early last year will be tried as an adult in the homicides of…
Baffling prosecutors and upsetting victims, an Ohio judge has ordered four teenage victims of sexual assaults to take polygraph tests—after their alleged attackers have already been found delinquent, reports the…
For nine months, Supervising Judge Edwina G. Richardson-Mendelson has overseen the New York City judges who detain juveniles, many of whom suffer from some sort of mental illness.
A math class dispute among middle-schoolers in upstate New York led to a felony charge against an 11-year-old boy after he allegedly attacked with a sharp pencil a classmate who…
The ABA’s policy-making House of Delegates this morning passed a series of nine criminal justice resolutions. The measures had wide support from both prosecutors and the defense bar, according to…
A 17-year-old DWI defendant’s Facebook photo labeled “drunk in Florida” may be the reason she was sentenced to six months in jail for a crash that killed her boyfriend.
A Texas woman who says she was severely beaten by her 15-year-old son after she asked him to do his chores last year is being treated as a crime victim.
A new report (PDF) by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency on the “Extravagance of Imprisonment” is likely to fall on receptive ears as government officials struggling…
A Georgia judge this morning found a 12-year-old boy not guilty of murdering his baby cousin, saying that the defendant hadn’t intended to kill the five-week-old girl.
At least eight people have been cited by the La Crosse, Wis., police department for underage drinking based on incriminating photos on social media sites.
Called to an Arkansas home after the mother of a 10-year-old girl couldn’t get her to take a shower, an Ozark police officer wound up shocking her briefly with a…
The problem of drawing lines became a focus at yesterday’s oral arguments on whether the Constitution bars a sentence of life without parole for juveniles who don’t commit murder.
The law firm of Robert J. Powell has been dropped as a defendant in a federal tort claim brought over the so-called kids-for-cash case involving $770,000 in kickbacks admittedly paid…
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