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Students with school absences—some as young as 12 years-old—were being tried in local truancy courts and juvenile courts without a lawyer to represent them.
For the first time, the Department of Justice is looking into a state case regarding the right to legal representation for child defendants.
The U.S. is the only country in the world that sentences youth to life in prison.
