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DEL.ICIO.USBill would allow harsher sentences for minors convicted of murder
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A bill that would allow a judge to sentence a minor convicted of murder until the age of 21 cleared the Georgia Senate with no opposition (45-0) Tuesday.
Under current Georgia law, children younger than 13 who are convicted of murder or other serious crimes face a maximum of two years confinement. A Juvenile Court judge may later add another two years.
“That’s what we really wanted to do – make sure we weren’t harming children in an effort to give juvenile judges a little more authority,� said Sen. Bill Hamrick (R-Carrollton), the bill’s sponsor.
Hamrick successfully proposed an amendment that would limit the scope of the bill only to murder, not crimes such as kidnapping, rape, aggravated sodomy, aggravated sexual battery, aggravated child molestation and armed robbery.
Hamrick filed Senate Bill 522 because of the high-profile murder of Amy Yates, an 8-year-old Carrollton girl, in 2004. Police charged a 12-year-old boy, and he is serving the remainder of his maximum two-year sentence in a residential psychiatric treatment center.
The measure now goes to the House for approval.
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