Texas Judge Gustavo Garza keeps two paddles in his courtroom and he gives parents the option of putting them to use on their truant children to avoid a $500 fine.
William Thornton IV was reportedly driving without a valid license when he skidded through a stop sign on a poorly lit road in Citrus County, Fla., in 2004. Both occupants…
Blood transfusions may have helped save the life of a Cleveland juvenile court judge when at the age of 17 he became paralyzed from the neck down in a trampoline…
Demetrius Carey was charged as a triggerman, at age 14, in an alleged robbery-gone-bad that resulted in the death of a 56-year-old South Florida woman on her front steps as…
After his first (and only) four months of schooling, at an Islamic madrassa in Pakistan, Shauker Ullah was ready, at 14, to pursue what religious leaders reportedly told him was…
Tennessee disciplinary authorities have censured a Tennessee judge for his conduct in cases involving children of illegal immigrants and children he thought might be in U.S. illegally.
The family of an East Baltimore teen who died in 2007 at a school for juvenile offenders while counselors attempted to restrain him have filed a wrongful-death suit seeking $207…
A military judge has sided with the defense in pretrial proceedings in the the controversial terrorism case of a Canadian suspect captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan at age 15.
So far lawmakers and law enforcers haven’t had much luck improving conditions in crime-plagued Baltimore. So University of Maryland Law Professor Orde F. Kittrie has put the challenge to his…
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to accept an appeal that contends a 30-year sentence given to a 12-year-old boy amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.
Lawyers for two girls ages 10 and 11 say they will ask a Pennsylvania court to dismiss charges against them for a playground assault because they are too young to…
Taking advantage of a new law giving judges more discretion in Illinois, one judge, possibly for the first time, has opted to leave a youthful offender’s name off the a…
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