Analysis: Lancaster County teens accused of homicide almost always tried in adult court
If the attorney for the 14-year-old Manheim Township girl charged as an adult in the stabbing death of her older sister tries to have her case moved to juvenile court, he will face an almost impossible task. A review of LNP | LancasterOnline archives going back five decades found only one case in more than a dozen in which an attorney persuaded a judge that a minor charged with homicide should be handled in juvenile court. The facts of that case differ from the accusations Claire Miller is facing. In April 1999, Elizabethtown 14-year-old Nicole Boyer gave birth and was accused of smothering t...
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