Jonathan Lewis Jr., 17, was badly injured in the Nov. 1 attack near Rancho High School in Las Vegas. He died less than a week later.
Four teenagers accused of fatally beating a classmate last year in Las Vegas have agreed to plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter, which will keep them from being tried as adults, attorneys confirmed Thursday.
Nine students were arrested in connection with the melee on Nov. 1 involving a large group of people near Rancho High School, in which 17-year-old Jonathan Lewis was critically injured; he later died.
I gotta say I never understood the whole not trying them as adults thing.
I get that kids brains aren’t fully developed and that can lead them to do some morally apprehensive things but that just sounds like a bullshit excuse. That’s an excuse meant to be used for shit like stealing a candy bar or mild vandalism not beating someone to death.
Honestly I think the parents of the child should also end up with legal ramifications. You raised a piece of shit now you get to deal with the consequences.
Every kid who commits adult crimes should be charged as an adult.
Without clarification on what you mean by “adult crimes”, this is basically just saying “eliminate the juvenile justice system and feed the children to the sharks”.
Felonies. Let’s just use that as the line.
How about violent felonies? In amerikkka its a felony to be black in certain areas.
It may seem like that based on police behavior, but that isn’t true.
It’s pretty true when they’re dead
Still, not illegal. However, the murder should be… and it is often not.
