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Black Missouri teens increasingly tried disproportionately as adults

About this story This story was produced for the St. Louis Beacon, a nonprofit online news publication. Missouri has been prosecuting an increasingly disproportionate number of African-American juveniles in adult courts, despite an unusual state law that requires judges to consider racial disparity when deciding whether to transfer such cases. In 2009, 64 percent of […]

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