An Act to Amend Title 10 of the Delaware Code Relating to Juvenile Prosecution.
Reported from committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- Reported from committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 15
- Latest action
- Jun 19, 2019
What it does
United States Supreme Court case law and scientific research has changed how we think about juvenile delinquency. We know now that an adolescent’s brain is not fully developed until the mid-twenties which makes juveniles especially prone to poor decision-making. In the landmark case of Miller v. Alabama, in which the United States Supreme Court prohibited mandatory life sentences without parole for juveniles on the rationale that children are inherently different than adults, the Court relied not only scientific research but on common sense and what any parent knows: kids will be kids.\r Children in Delaware have minimum ages set for many things: getting a driver’s license, enlisting in the…
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