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State Bar & Bar Associations

Feb. 12, 2015

ABA delegates take stands on juvenile justice, stand-your-ground laws, law school debt

Meeting in Houston, the association body also called for unanimous death verdicts, transparency regarding lethal-injection cocktails and free lawyers for unaccompanied minors facing deportation.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Leaders of the American Bar Association took a series of stands Monday to protect juveniles in the criminal and immigration systems, including urging states not to sentence young defendants to life in prison or shackle them in court and endorsing government-paid lawyers for unaccompanied minors facing deportation.


Meeting in Houston at the ABA's midyear convention, the association's Hou...

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