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Card#1
Source:Kids should never be tried as adults
Author:Robert Schwartz
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Note: "About 20 years ago, 9-year-old Cameron Kocher fired a rifle out of a window of his home in upstate Pennsylvania." |
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Card#2
Source: Kids should never be tried as adults
Author: Robert Schwartz
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| "hit his 7-year-old neighbor, who was riding on a snowmobile, and killed her." |
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Card#3
Source:Kids should never be tried as adults
Author:Robert Schwartz
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Note:"The prosecutor decided to try the 9-year-old as an adult." |
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Card#4
Title:Kids should never be tried as adults
Author:Robert Schwartz
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Note: "When the charge is murder, Pennsylvania is one of a handful of states that has no lower age limit for trying children as adults". |
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Card#5
Source:Kids should never be tried as adults
Author:Robert Schwartz
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Note: "District attorney argued that Cameron had lied when asked about the shooting and lying is something an adult does." |
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Card#6
Source:Kids should never be tried as adults
Author:Robert Schwartz
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Note: "The trial judge agreed to keep Cameron's case in adult court." |
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Card#7
Source:Kids should never be tried as adults
Author:Robert Schwartz
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Note: "Cameron had also dozed during pretrial motion's, which showed "a lack of remorse" |
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Card#8
Source:Kids should never be tried as adults
Author:Robert Schwartz
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Note: "Cameron stayed home on bail which adults can do too, he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and was placed on probation" |
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Card#9
Source:Kids should never be tried as adults
Author:Robert Schwartz
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Note: "Jordan Brown was 11 years old when he was charged as an adult with shooting his dad's pregnant fiancee." |
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Card#10
Source:Kids should never be tried as adults
Author:Robert Schwartz
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Note: "His attorney asked the judge to keep the case in juvenile court. If they made Jordan a adjudicated delinquent the juvenile people could keep him until he was 21" |
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Card#11
Source:Kids should never be tried as adults
Author:Robert Schwartz
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Notes: "Researchers found what many of us were trying to say during the Cameron Kocher case that at the age of 9, he simply couldn't process information and plan a crime like an adult." |
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Card#12
Source:Kids should never be tried as adults
Author:Robert Schwartz
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Note: "When youths strugggle with their immaturity, undeveloped decision making, impulsiveness, lack of future orientation, and susceptibility to negative peer pressure." |
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Card#13
Source:Kids should never be tried as adults
Author:Robert Schwartz |
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Note: "The teenage brain is undergoing dramatic changes during adolescence in ways that affect teens ability to reason, and to way consequences for decisions". |
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Card#14
Title:Kids should never be tried as adults
Author:Robert Schwartz |
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Note: "Dr. Laurence Steinberg and Elizabeth Scott concluded that people under the age of 15 should never be tried as an adult." |
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Card #15
Source: Kids should never be tried as adults
Author: Robert Schwartz
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Note: "The fact that teens are less blameworthy than adults is not the same as an excuse." |
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Card #16
Source: Kids should never be tried as adults
Author: Robert Schwartz
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Note: "While youths should be punished for crimes it should be done in a developmentally appropriate way." |
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Card #17
Source: Kids should never be tried as adults
Author: Robert Schwartz
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Note: "An 11 year old is not an adult and should never be treated like one! |
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Card #18
Source: Should The Law Treat Kids and Adults differently?
Author: Jessica Reaves
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Note: "14 year old Nathaniel Brazil was found guilty of 2nd degree murder for killing his English teacher last year." |
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Card #19
Source: Should the Law Treat Kids and Adults differently?
Author: Jessica Reaves
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Note: The charge usually carries a prison term of up to 30 years, but Brazille's defense team is hopeful the sentencing judge will be more lenient in this case. |
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Card #20
Source: Age for Executions Raised to 18
Author: Michael J. Rochon
Page: none. |
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| "A person committing a murder must be at least 18 years old at the time of the crime to be executed." |
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Card #21
Source: Age for Executions Raised to 18
Author: Michael J. Rochon
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| "At least one aggravating circumstance must be found by a jury before it can recommend a death sentence." |
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Card #22
Source: Age for Executions Raised to 18
Author: Michael J. Rochon
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| "A jury must provide a special verdict form for each alleged aggravating circumstance." |
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Card #23
Source: Age for Executions Raised to 18
Author: Michael J. Rochon
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| "Judges are prohibited from issuing a sentence different from a jury's recommendation." |
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Card #24
Source: Age for Executions Raised to 18
Author: Michael J. Rochon
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| "In Indinana it was one of 18 states that actually allowed 16 year olds to be put on the death sentance. |
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Card #25
Source: Age for Executions Raised to 18
Author: Michael J. Rochon
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| before 2002 anyone the age of 16 could be sentanced to death row. |
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Card #26
Source: Juvenile Law
Author: http://law.jrank.org/pages/7956/Juvenile-Law-History.html
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| Some states in 2003 such as: Indiana and South Dakota kids as young as 10 could tried as adults. |
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Card #27
Source: Juvenile Law
Author: http://law.jrank.org/pages/7956/Juvenile-Law-History.html
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| "The question of whether trying juveniles as adults is effective has generated considerable interest. Some studies have suggested that instead of solving a problem." |
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Card #28
Source: Juvenile Law
Author: http://law.jrank.org/pages/7956/Juvenile-Law-History.html
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| "Trying juveniles in adult settings may be making things worse. Juveniles who serve time with adults have a higher recidivism rate than those who serve with other juveniles." |
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Card #29
Source:Should Teens be tried as adults
Author:Robin Sax
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| Kids under the age of 18 aren't old to vote and sign contracts, but once they can drive they are old enough to be charged with murder. |
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Card#30
Source:Should teens be tried as adults
Author:Robin Sax
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| "Sunday, September 5, 2010, got me thinking about this very topic. On that evening, 81-year-old George Baker was indiscriminately attacked while walking down the main street" |
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Card#31
Source:Should teens be tried as adults
Author: Robin Sax
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| "He was on his way back to his hotel from the reception when two 16-year-old boys and one 13-year-old boy randomly attacked him." |
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Card#32
Source:Should Teens Be tried as adults
Author:Robin Sax
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| "That boy then struck the elderly gentleman, who fell to the ground. The second boy then kicked the unconscious Mr. Baker in the head." |
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Card#33
Source:Should teens be tried as adults
Author:Robin Sax
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| He had extensive head injuries, died at the hospital early the next morning. |
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Card#34
Source:Should teens be tried as adults
Author:Robin Sax
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| "The three teenage boys were arrested after being identified by witnesses to the attack. All have been charged with murder. The two 16-year-olds will be charged as adults." |
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Card#35
Source:Should teens be tried as adults
Author:Robin Sax
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| Reasons for the 16 year olds being charged with murder is that the old man didn't resist nor did he provoke the attack in any way. |
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Card#36
Source:Should teens be tried as adults
Author:Robin Sax
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| The boys could consent to sex, and the boys were associated with a local gang. |
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Card#37
Source: Who decides rather kids should be tried as adults?
Author:Harlan J. Protass
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| "Two 15-year-olds were arrested in connection with the execution-style murders of three college students in a Newark, N.J., school yard." |
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Card#38
Source:Who decides which children get tried as adults?
Author:Harlan J. Protass
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| sually, a juvenile court judge does. "Judicial waiver" is the most widely used means for transferring a minor into the adult criminal justice system." |
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Card#39
Source:Who decides which children get tried as adults?
Author:Harlan J. Protass
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| "Some states leave the decision entirely up to the judge, others impose a presumption in favor of waiver, and still others make judicial waiver mandatory for very serious crimes." |
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Card#40
Source:Who decides which children get tried as adults?
Author:Harlan J. Protass
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| "they generally include the following: the nature and circumstances of the crime; whether the offense was committed in an aggressive, violent, or premeditated manner; the merit of the charges; the sophistication, maturity, and prior history of the minor; the need to protect the public; and the likelihood that the child can be treated and rehabilitated" |
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Card#41
Source:Who decides which children get tried as adults?
Author:Harlan J. Protass
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| "Prosecutors can also be authorized to make the decision themselves." |
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Card#42
Source:Who decides which children get tried as adults?
Author:Harlan J. Protass
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| "Prosecutors can then unilaterally decide where to file charges against a minor." |
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Card#43
Source:Who decides which children get tried as adults?
Author:Harlan J. Protass
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| "Sometimes state legislatures decide the outcome. With a "statutory exclusion," lawmakers grant criminal (not juvenile) courts" |
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Card#44
Source:Who decides which children get tried as adults?
Author:Harlan J. Protass
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| "With statutory exclusion, lawmakers essentially predetermine that a minor will be treated as an adult and take the decision out of the hands of both the courts and the prosecutor." |
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Card#45
Source:Who decides which children get tried as adults?
Author:Harlan J. Protass
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| In Newark, where the two 15-year-olds will be fighting for their freedom, juvenile courts have exclusive authority over all criminal cases involving individuals under the age of 18. |
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Card#46
Source:Who decides which children get tried as adults?
Author:Harlan J. Protass
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| New Jersey law requires juvenile court judges, if requested, to transfer the cases of minors over the age of 14 who are accused of, among other things. |
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Card#47
Source:Who decides which children get tried as adults?
Author:Harlan J. Protass
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Definition
| "Like criminal homicide or possession of a firearm with intent to use it against another person" |
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Card#48
Source:Who decides which children get tried as adults?
Author:Harlan J. Protass
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Definition
| "unless the minor shows promise of rehabilitation before the age of 19." |
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Card#49
Source:Who decides which children get tried as adults?
Author:Harlan J. Protass
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| Depending on the severity of the crime kids under the age of 18 might just have to go through juvenile court instead of adult court |
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Card#50
Source:Who decides which children get tried as adults?
Author:Harlan J. Protass
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| People have different opinions on rather children should be tried as adults or not but everyone has difference opinions. |
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