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...Colonie's youth court, the jurors and lawyers are adolescents and so are the judge and the bailiff, who swears in witnesses that often include the only adults in the room: parents, victims and police officers. The perps are limited to first-time offenders who are under the age of 19 and who admit guilt to minor crimes. Sentences are generally creative forms of community service, never jail terms, and the record shows that 99% of those sentenced complete the required tasks. Doing so keeps their criminal records clean, which helps for college and job applications...
...only ones to get a lesson in justice at youth court. Volunteer defenders and prosecutors, who undergo eight weeks of training, also come to understand the judicial process. They serve for at least a year, often more. When not lawyering, they rotate among the other court roles: judge, bailiff and jury foreperson. Jurors are untrained volunteers in seventh through 12th grades. They carefully weigh sentences, which usually range from 30 to 60 hours of service-cleaning a local park, washing police cars, working at a food bank-depending on the severity of the crime and how much remorse the guilty...
...slow, painful decline and fall of the Yukos empire entered what seems to be its final act last week, with bailiffs and police combing the firm's offices across Russia, carting away documents, hard drives and anything else they thought could give them a fix on the assets and cash of one of the country's largest and most profitable corporations. "We are not going to destroy the company's operational activities," said Andrei Belyakov, head of the Justice Ministry's bailiff service. "At least, we are not intending to." But many analysts say that Russian authorities...
...ANDREI BELYAKOV, head of bailiff service...
...ANDREI BELYAKOV, head of bailiff service...