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Penelope · 6 answers · 2y

A man has been found guilty of a murder he committed when he was 13 years old - he’s now 41. Bearing in mind children get lighter sentences than adults: should he be sentenced as a child (as he was at the time) or as an adult (as he is now)?

This really depends on what kind of a life he’s been leading, what we’re the circumstances of the murder, and why it took so long to find out?

is this in America? I thought usually the adult/child thing is decided by prosecutors/judges before the trial, before a verdict is reached? Anyway the context and case details matter, or maybe put more simply: if he would have been tried as an adult at 13, then yes, treat him as an adult now...if not, then as a child

Trial him as an adult, man had plenty of years to confess to the murder and be given a lighter sentence.

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