Georgia - Load a Screensaver, face 120 Years Prison, strangle an 8 yr old girl, get a slap on the wrist.
4-29-2004 Suspect to be Tried as a Juvenile
District Attorney Pete Skandalakis said he had no choice under Georgia law but to try the boy as a juvenile. State law says a person may only be tried as an adult if he is at least 13 years old.
"There is no option. There's nothing available to us without the law being changed," Skandalakis said.
The law also does not consider murder a felony for juvenile suspects. Consequently, if the suspect is convicted, he would serve a maximum of two years.
The family ?cannot comprehend why in Georgia someone charged with murder would only be subject to a two-year penalty,? he said. ?They didn?t say they wanted a maximum penalty of life in prison, but they could not understand how it could only be a two-year penalty.?
The boy was described as a home-schooled child who bummed cigarettes from neighbors and was known for causing disturbances along with a couple of teenagers in the Twin Oaks Mobile Home Park. They sometimes stole things or broke into vacant mobile homes, neighbors said.
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4-29-2004 Woman, 97, Handcuffed Over Ticket
HIGHLAND PARK, Texas ? Police say they had no choice but to go by the book when they handcuffed a 97-year-old woman and took her to jail for failing to pay a traffic ticket.
"All of our enthusiasm should be tempered with judgment, and therein lies my problem with this, and basically Mother's problem with it, too," he said.
Her other son, David, is a state district judge. He said it would be inappropriate for him to discuss the arrest.
4-29-2004 Suspect to be Tried as a Juvenile
District Attorney Pete Skandalakis said he had no choice under Georgia law but to try the boy as a juvenile. State law says a person may only be tried as an adult if he is at least 13 years old.
"There is no option. There's nothing available to us without the law being changed," Skandalakis said.
The law also does not consider murder a felony for juvenile suspects. Consequently, if the suspect is convicted, he would serve a maximum of two years.
The family ?cannot comprehend why in Georgia someone charged with murder would only be subject to a two-year penalty,? he said. ?They didn?t say they wanted a maximum penalty of life in prison, but they could not understand how it could only be a two-year penalty.?
The boy was described as a home-schooled child who bummed cigarettes from neighbors and was known for causing disturbances along with a couple of teenagers in the Twin Oaks Mobile Home Park. They sometimes stole things or broke into vacant mobile homes, neighbors said.
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4-29-2004 Woman, 97, Handcuffed Over Ticket
HIGHLAND PARK, Texas ? Police say they had no choice but to go by the book when they handcuffed a 97-year-old woman and took her to jail for failing to pay a traffic ticket.
"All of our enthusiasm should be tempered with judgment, and therein lies my problem with this, and basically Mother's problem with it, too," he said.
Her other son, David, is a state district judge. He said it would be inappropriate for him to discuss the arrest.
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