Ensuring Petty Crimes Don’t Lead to Big Ones

Published on September 22, 2010

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(NYT) — The 16-year-old defendant seemed annoyed and a bit confused. Seated in the witness box in a courthouse in Staten Island, her answers were curt and short on detail. The inquiry into her crime — stealing a shirt in April at the Staten Island Mall — had just begun. Could she describe what happened?

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