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Chang: "It's the portrait of an All-American 11-year-old in full bloom."

Chang: "Quarterback of the pee wee football team, a good student.  But now, a life interrupted."

VO: "It happened inside this Pennsylvania farmhouse..."

Officer: "You wouldn't even think in your worst nightmare that you'd have to charge an 11-year-old with homicide..."

(ABC)

 

Jordan Brown allegedly shot his dad's pregnant fiance in the back of the head, hid the evidence, then got on the bus and went to school.  But before he goes to trial for murder, a judge will have to decide whether he will be tried as an adult or a juvenile.

On ABC, one law professor says prosecuting kids is always tricky.

"I'm not sure that we think they should be treated like adults.  What I think it is, is what they've done is so heinous, we're troubled with the idea of treating them just like they are a kid."

A juvenile justice researcher tells the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette child murderers are so rare the law just isn't built to handle them properly.

"It's kind of a safety valve of the juvenile system, [not] handling offenses that are too serious.  Murder was way beyond the pale. But they weren't thinking about an 11-year-old."

On Pittsburgh's ABC affiliate, a friend of the victim says Jordan's actions following the murder make it clear: He should be tried as an adult.

"How can they say that an 11-year-old did not know what he's doing when he covered up the whole situation and went to school not showing any remorse?"

If tried and convicted as an adult, Jordan would spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole.  But on CNN, the executive director of the Juvenile Law Center says keeping him until his 21st birthday is more than enough.

"That is an extraordinary amount of time for an 11-year-old.  It is certainly long enough to serve the needs of public protection, and enough time to rehabilitate a child."

On CBS, Judge Jeannine Pirro says she isn't sure she likes either choice for Jordan's future.

"Can he be rehabilitated by the time he's 21? He's 12 now and they only have another nine years.  There needs to be a blended sentence so there can be some monitoring, some parole." 
 
Writer/Producer: Tracy Pfeiffer

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