Assignment Instructions: A cornerstone of learning juvenile justice includes understanding the difference in treatment of juveniles who enter the system, versus adults who enter the system. Initially

Assignment Instructions:

A cornerstone of learning juvenile justice includes understanding the difference in treatment of juveniles who enter the system, versus adults who enter the system.  Initially, protective rights were not extended to juveniles.  However, through the process of appeal and evaluation by The Supreme Court, juveniles were extended many of the same rights and protections given to adults who came into the formal legal system. 

Read Kent v US and write a legal brief. 

A legal brief requires the following: the case title, statement of the issue of the case, the details of the case background, and the way in which the court ruled, with an explanation supporting that ruling.  

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• Course reference(s) and one outside reference are required.
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• Length of paper should be a minimum of 2 written pages. (Title page and reference page are not included in this number.)