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California Trying Mentally Disabled Teens as Adults

By AAN Staff
august 7, 2002  03:24 pm
California Trying Mentally Disabled Teens as Adults
California's Proposition 21, a result of the state's recent get-tough-on-crime kick, allows prosecutors unprecedented power to drag mentally retarded minors into the adult court system and demand the harshest penalties. Sacramento News & Review's Cosmo Garvin follows one such case: a 15-year-old autistic boy with an IQ of about 60 who is being tried in adult court for attempted premeditated murder.
View full article at Sacramento News & Review