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Re: Oklahoma Pharmacist gets Life
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Originally Posted by Sea Ray
In Oklahoma, like most states, teenagers charged with first degree murder are tried as adults. In Oklahoma 13 year olds are required to be tried as adults if charged with 1st degree murder:
http://www.act4jj.org/media/factsheets/factsheet_49.pdf
Thus the kid's age would have made zero difference in a legal sense. |
The whole issue of age is really nothing, but the 16 year old didn't shoot anyone. I don't know Oklahoma's penal code well enough to know if all 16 year olds are tried as adults for the crime he actually committed.
Without getting into legal definitions though, JayStubbs brought up his age to point out that this "punk" was someone who would not be held to the same standards in many cases as someone who was an adult.
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