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Massachusetts Juveniles Bring Weapons To School, Assault Students And Are Prosecuted

By Altman & Altman

When I was a kid, we had a thing called ?show and tell? in which you could bring in something you thought was ?cool? to show the class and maybe play with when the teacher was not looking. It was fun. For some reason, it never occurred to me to bring a weapon in to play with. I guess times have changed. Back then, I suppose, if I had brought some weapon in, my parents would have been called and I might be suspended. Today, though, it is the police who are called and it can mean incarceration. Take a certain 14-year-old student (hereinafter, ?Defendant 1?) at Silver Lake Regional Middle School in Kingston, Massachusetts, for example. A pellet gun was found in his locker, according to the Patriot Ledger. On Thursday morning, a school staffer found the gun in a plastic bag...continue to full post

Full post as published by Boston Criminal lawyer Blog on November 24, 2008 (boomark / email).