Thirteen states have not imposed a minimum age for prosecuting a child as an adult, leaving eight-, nine-, and ten-year-old children vulnerable to extreme punishment, trauma, and abuse within adult jails and prisons.
Alaska, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia have no minimum age for the adult prosecution of children.
Thirteen States Have No Minimum Age for Adult Prosecution of Children
Youth in Adult Court
Despite the existence of juvenile courts, many youth are still tried as adults. Tennessee has two ways that youth can be prosecuted as adults:
- Discretionary Transfer: After a petition has been filed alleging delinquency…the [juvenile] court, before hearing the petition on the merits, may transfer the youth…to be dealt with as an adult in the criminal court if:
- The youth was less than fourteen (14) years at the time of the alleged conduct and the alleged conduct is murder;
- The youth is fourteen (14) years of age but less than seventeen (17) at the time of the alleged conduct and the alleged conduct is a serious, statutorily delineated felony offense;
- The youth is sixteen (16) years of age or older at the time of the alleged conduct and charged with robbery or attempted robbery; or
- The youth is seventeen (17) years of age or more at the time of the alleged conduct. Tenn. Code Ann. § 37-1-134(a)(1)(A).
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So, potentially all of them can be tried as adults. Probably a good idea, since black 'culture' worships murderers and gangbangers no end, and they're already feral predators, it is best they never get back on the street again. They will do well in prison, probably the only environment they would do well in. Just watch any daily broadcast of shows like TMZ; they glamorize and fawn over thugs and vermin and the violence and mayhem their pet rappers and hip hop scum generate, then peddle fake news about Trump and have one black racist who always spins any arrest of these vermin as 'rayciss n stuff' every time that they give lots of airplay to make up exuses for black stupidity..