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OA536: The Tennessee Judge Who Keeps Jailing Kids

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Taking Miners Into Custody

Tennessee's rules of criminal procedure strongly they do not outright prohibit taking miners into custody. But what they do is you do that in incredibly rare circumstances. A probable cause determination that an offence has been committed by the child shall be made by a magistrate within forty eight hours, excluding non judicial days. That's exactly right. That's the analogy to this. That is whyl ye. It gets worse. This is something that pro publica did not report on, and so i think tat it is really, really important to point out. The law is super clear. Ordinarily, if you take a child into custody he is a danger to himself or others,. You nevertheless have

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