During my senior year of college, I took a juvenile law course with Massachusetts Supreme Court Chief Justice Roderick Ireland in which I was required to sit in on cases at the Boston Juvenile Court.

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Two cases in which juvenile offenders got life without parole didn't even involve murder.

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Under the bill, which passed 286-132 on Thursday, teenagers accused of murder, aggravated assault, rape, major drug violations, and armed robbery would be tried in adult court, unless the attorney general ruled their cases should be handled in juvenile court.

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Despite such cases, data on unrecognized child victims in Kentucky's juvenile justice system are hard to find.

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In nine cases out of ten, the police complain, the result is that juvenile delinquents get released by the courts after a mere ticking-off.

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