A Teen’s Sentence Sparks Debate About Justice, Choices, and Consequences

catastrophic lapse in judgment. In the heat of an escalated conflict, a decision was made in seconds—a choice that left no room for retreat, no window for second thoughts, and no path back to the ordinary life he had known just hours before. The courtroom, once a place of abstract legal theory, became the stage for a tragedy that pitted the severity continue reading …