We ought to rethink how juvenile homicide cases are handled in Pennsylvania [editorial]
THE ISSUE âIf 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,â LNP | LancasterOnlineâs Dan Nephin reported in Sundayâs edition. âA 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.â And, Nephin noted, the facts of that one âcase differ from...