Judge: Prison or 2nd chance for teen
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The boy before Judge Kenneth Biehn was quiet and withdrawn, an asthmatic whose mother used and sold crack cocaine and whose father was doing time for robbery. At just 14, Kareem Watts stood accused of his own, much more horrific crime: Stabbing to death a neighbor who disrespected his mother.
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ATLANTA, June 14 -- Georgia's Supreme Court agreed on Thursday to hear the state's arguments for keeping in prison a man who had consensual sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17. The state's attorney general later said the prisoner's  release could lead to  hundreds of incarcerated child...
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NEW CASTLE, Pa. - A man convicted of terrorizing three teenagers by repeatedly calling and asking them about their feet has been sentenced to nine months to almost two years in prison.
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A Louisiana appeals court ruled it was too early to consider a motion to release an black teenager who allegedly took part in beating up a white classmate in Jena, Louisiana, last year.
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WILMINGTON, N.C. - A teenager may go to jail for using foul language with a high school teacher...
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A judge who condemned federal sentencing laws as "unjust, cruel and irrational" said he had little choice Tuesday but to sentence a first-time drug offender caught with a handgun to 55 years and one day in prison.
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A Scottish man on death row in the US is to face a retrial after his conviction was overturned a second time.
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Lionel Tate, the Florida youth once sentenced to life in prison for the death of a playmate, can return to his mother's home while he serves probation, a judge ruled Monday.
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A teenager is due to appear at Newry Youth Court charged with dangerous driving causing two deaths.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 26 -- A judge's decision to keep a stymied jury deliberating for 12 hours just days before Christmas could be grounds to overturn a manslaughter verdict against a black man convicted of shooting a white teenager, criminal defense lawyers said Wednesday.
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Barry Bonds' personal trainer is out of prison again, but his freedom could be short-lived if an appeals court agrees with a federal judge that he was in contempt of court for refusing to testify against the slugger.
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ATLANTA, June 11 â A Georgia Superior Court judge today ordered the release of Genarlow Wilson, who has served two years of 10-year prison sentence for having consensual oral sex with another teenager at a party when he was 17. Prosecutors said they would appeal the order.
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PHILADELPHIA - October 13 - With the Supreme Court now poised to decide if the death penalty for minors constitutes cruel and unusual punishment, will Pennsylvania and Delaware finally take a look at their own laws?
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Frank Quattrone, who was sentenced to 18 months in prison last week, accused the judge in his case of &quot;callousness&quot; for revealing his 15-year-old daughter&#39;s emotional disorder and asked an appeals court to seal letters from family and friends seeking
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A black teenager who once faced attempted murder and conspiracy charges for beating a white schoolmate amid racial tension at their high school was convicted Thursday of lesser charges.
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One of two 13-year-old girls accused of serving poisoned cake to classmates was allowed to go home Friday, but a judge ordered the other girl to remain in custody while she awaits trial.
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To a prosecutor, Ashley Reeves is nothing short of a miracle. More than a year ago, the teenager was found in the woods of a city park, where an assailant had left her for dead after snapping her neck. She couldn't move. Her breathing was shallow, her eyes glassy. On Friday, after months of grueling rehab learning how to swallow, talk and move her head and arms again, the 18-year-old Reeves watched the man who caused her ordeal get punished.