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Originally posted by AGDee
They are doing this with a kid who was 11 when he committed murder in Michigan.. Nathaniel Abraham. He was the youngest person to ever be tried as an adult and it made national headlines. He was convicted as an adult of second degree murder, but the judge sentenced him to a juvenile facility until the age of 21, but he is being evaluated beginning at age 18 to determine readiness for release. Our big boy prisons don't have any wings or floors for juveniles that I know of.
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I think that idea makes perfect sense. I guess that Maryland doesn't do that because if there was ever a case that called for it, it's this one.
AGDee, do you think that trying the Baltimore boy as a juvenile will send the wrong message to other members of his gang? It's apparently established that the adult gang members are using the juvenile ones to sell drugs, etc. Do you think now they'll start to feel like they're untouchable because all they have to do is use a kid to do all of their dirty work, including knocking someone off?
It's a scary situation.
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