Lawsuit: Teen illegally held for months on burglary charge
Source: Associated Press
Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press
Updated 4:58 pm, Tuesday, April 10, 2018
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A lawsuit claims Louisiana authorities have illegally detained a teenage boy for nearly one year after his arrest on a burglary charge.
The suit, filed Tuesday by New Orleans-based attorneys from the Southern Poverty Law Center, seeks the 15-year-old boy's immediate release from a juvenile detention center in Monroe.
The boy was 13 when he was arrested in 2016. His attorneys say he should have been brought before a judge 11 months ago for a hearing to determine if he can be safely released.
Under a law enacted in 2016, children facing non-violent felony charges cannot be held for longer than nine months unless the state demonstrates at a hearing that they must remain incarcerated, according to the boy's attorneys.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Lawsuit-Teen-illegally-held-for-months-on-12822584.php
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Gotta be. Wouldn't couldn't be any other way. Wonder the racial ratio of black to white KIDS in this hellhole for kids, predominantly AA I know just because of the way black kids are treated when it comes to allegedly committing the same crimes as white kids and with the same record. Louisiana being the state too! Just as bad as any Alabama, N.C. S.C.
