A Justice Department investigation has concluded
that the St. Louis County Family Court discriminates against black
children and falls short in providing required legal protections to
children in general.
The court "fails to provide constitutionally
required due process to children appearing for delinquency proceedings,"
the department's Civil Rights Division said in a report after analyzing
nearly 33,000 juvenile cases in the court between 2010 and 2013.
The report said the court failed to ensure that
young defendants have adequate legal representation, failed to make
required findings of probable cause that a child committed the charged
offense, and failed to ensure that a child's guilty plea was
voluntarily.
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Source: NBC News
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