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...towards trying juveniles as adults was taken to its furthest frontier in recent days when a Michigan court heard the case of Nathaniel Abraham, accused of first-degree murder. Two years ago, the then-11-year-old Abraham borrowed a .22 caliber rifle, sat on a hillside in a Detroit suburb, and shot stranger Ronnie Greene, Jr. in the head. Abraham's lawyers claimed the shooting was accidental; they said he was taking potshots at some trees. The prosecution said he bragged to pals that he was going to kill someone. The trial ended Tuesday with a verdict of second...
...trial became a case study of sorts. Under the microscope: A three-year-old Michigan law, the most stringent of its kind, which permits prosecutors, with a judge's permission, to try children as adults. "The theory behind this law," says TIME Detroit bureau chief Nichole Christian, "is that because more and more children nationwide are committing crimes that we generally think of as 'adult crimes,' these kids should be tried as adults." And despite widespread discomfort with attributing adult motivations to children, the laws are popular in many states. Opponents of the measures, ranging from Amnesty International to Abraham...
...drug on the premises. A similar kind of wiggle room is offered under mergers done according to the "community model." In that case, a Catholic hospital will join another institution and essentially tolerate forbidden practices in an area kept physically and administratively separate. That's how it works in Detroit, where a hospital has designated its top floor as a discrete facility that offers full reproductive services...
Robyn Sackeyfio '00, whose mother is Scottish and whose father is from Ghana, grew up in a predominantly white suburb of Detroit. She says her parents were surprised by the attention focused on her race when she was growing...
...around. He's particularly intriguing because he makes testosterone flicks that somehow play better to females than males. Check out The Last of the Mohicans, Heat and his latest, The Insider...The Backstreet Boys are being criticized because they refused to visit a young girl dying of leukemia in Detroit because of scheduled commitments. It's actually a legitimate excuse--are we hearing the first signs of irreversible backlash?…Ben Stiller's getting married. What happens to Janeane Garafolo?...Oh, and finally, does anybody have a videotape of that original Pokemon pilot that caused all those violent...