Re: Deadly nigger beating of white Las Vegas teen raises legal questions

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> Put these nigger animals in cages and use them for target practice.

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – With the majority of the young men he believes beat and
kicked a Rancho High School student to death already behind bars, Clark
County District Attorney Steve Wolfson has some decisions to make.

“In a case like this, there may be varying degrees of culpability,”
Wolfson, told the 8 News Now Investigators. “If you’re one individual that
causes six, or eight or 10 blows to the victim, versus another individual
which may have thrown one punch, that may have an effect on what we
determine to do as far as charging and outcome.

Metro arrested and booked all eight young men for murder, including a 15-
year-old boy and his younger brother, 13. The 13-year-old would, by all
accounts, be the youngest murder defendant in Nevada state history.

“We’re not talking about a six-year-old,” Wolfson said Wednesday. “We’re
not talking about an eight-year-old.”

A juvenile court judge will hold a hearing in December to determine
whether the four younger teens should be tried in adult court. That
process, in Nevada, is called certification. If the 13-year-old is
certified, it will no doubt raise eyebrows across the state.

“I don’t disagree that it’s not an easy thing to understand how a 13-year-
old could commit murder,” Wolfson said.

Medical research and academia support that notion, and further indicate
that adolescents’ brains take far longer to develop than originally
thought.

“There is now incontrovertible evidence that adolescence is a period of
significant changes in brain structure and function,” one scholarly
article by Temple University professor Laurence Steinberg declares.

The article continues: “Reasonable people may disagree about what these
findings may mean as society decides how to treat young people, but there
is little room for disagreement about the fact that adolescence is a
period of substantial brain maturation with respect to both structure and
function.”

Indeed, a professor of law and juvenile justice at UNLV’s Boyd School of
Law says adult prison might make things worse for a juvenile who could one
day return to society.

“The purpose of why we have a separate juvenile justice system is we’ve
known for 130 years or so the last thing you want to do is take a kid
who’s done something dumb but they’re not a hardened criminal and put them
into an environment where they’re going to learn how to become a hardened
criminal and a lifelong offender,” the professor, David Tanenhaus, said.
“Most kids grow out of delinquency.”

Tanenhaus says because Nevada’s youthful offenders tried and convicted as
adults are sent to Lovelock Correctional Center where they are segregated
in a separate unit and isolated from the rest of the older adult
population. He says those juveniles get very little time outside of their
ten-by-ten-foot cell for such things as exercise.

“Kids who commit the most serious crimes – they will eventually be
released into society,” Tanenhaus said. “So you don’t want to take
somebody and make them into somebody so much worse than the person they
could have been.”

The juvenile court hearing in Clark County Family Court is scheduled for
Dec. 6. The family of the victim, Jonathan Lewis, 17, will hold a vigil on
November 21. The four older teens will also appear in Las Vegas Justice
Court that day.

https://www.8newsnow.com/investigators/deadly-beating-of-las-vegas-teen-
raises-legal-questions/