Adult crimes warrant adult sentences
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More than 70 people who committed crimes as 16- and 17-year-olds are on death row - and thatâs where they should stay. Courts often try juveniles of this age as adults, so they should be punished as adults.
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BOULDER, Colo. - A Boulder man who children said put pornographic DVDs in their Halloween sacks last month has been arrested on suspicion of felony obscenity and could face more than a year in prison, police said.
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GETTYSBURG, Pa. - A woman who admitted smoking marijuana daily with her 13-year-old son to reward him for doing his homework was sentenced to three months in prison.  Amanda Lynn Livelsberger, 30, was also given nine months under house arrest and a year on probation Tuesday.
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By DAVE KOLPACK  FARGO, N.D. - A man convicted of 46 felony charges involving burglary sprees across 10 counties is facing four new charges in federal court here. Edward Dean Waslaski Jr., 42, is charged in federal court with felony counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
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People who sell drugs near schools or use children to aid them could get tougher  sentences under a new law.
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When state legislators passed a law last month requiring that 17-year-olds be tried as adults, they hoped the reduced cost of providing for adult prisoners rather than juveniles would save the state about $3.6 million.
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A Belfast man who murdered his former girlfriend has his jail term increased from 10 to 15 years.
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No great differences remain between the lengths of rape convictions of different courts of appeals, shows a recent report by the National Research Institute of Legal Policy (Optula). Municipal courts, however, ...
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After a long and passionate political debate about the virtue or vice of spanking, a new law went into effect that will allow mothers and fathers to chastize their offspring physically but send parents to jail for up to five years if they beat them too hard.
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The case of Genarlow Wilson, now serving a 10-year mandatory prison sentence for having oral sex with a 15-year-old girl as a teen, is just the latest to make the state's attorney general the target of protests.
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Plans to give murderers lighter sentences if they plead guilty have been watered down.
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Seventeen-year-olds who were charged with felonies as adults under a short-lived state law will either have their cases dismissed or be transferred back to juvenile court under a judge's ruling released Tuesday.
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Fines worth more than $12 million US were imposed on those establishments that allowed children to play violent or adult-only games and for other violations.
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Few people understand the criminal justice system like Wendell Poole. He spent 21 years, four months, 16 days and three hours in prison for assault with the intent to kill two people during an argument. He arrived home middle-aged and paranoid, flinching at the sound of passing cars. He needed a...
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A judge in Monroe County, Georgia, has ruled that 21-year-old Genarlow Wilson should be released from a 10-year prison sentence for a consensual sexual encounter he had when he was 17. He has been imprisoned for more than two years after his conviction for a sex act with a 15-year-old girl. But the state attorney general quickly filed a notice of appeal, keeping Wilson in prison for the time being.
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By Bob Purvis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Sep. 21--A Greendale man could go to jail if he is convicted of charges contending that he rented a condemned east side Milwaukee apartment to college students.   Mazin J.
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Murphy will go to trial Nov. 4 on charges he molested his daughters, a state district judge said Tuesday. Murphy is charged with three counts of indecency with a child and three counts of aggravated sexual assault, punishable by up to life in prison.