51.   The Supreme Court did not rule on a defense argument that Juvenile Court Judge Maureen Dennis erred when she ordered the case transferred to adult court.

52.   The unanimous decision, handed down Tuesday, has implications for the national debate over whether to try more juveniles in adult courts and sentence them to adult prisons.

53.   There are no private conference rooms in the New Orleans juvenile court, like the ones for adult courts.

54.   Today, juveniles can be tried for murder in adult court.

55.   Tried in adult court, the youths could have faced up to five years in jail for their sentence.

56.   Two of them have been convicted of murder in adult court and two in juvenile court.

57.   We made it more difficult for a judge to impose juvenile sanctions in an adult court.

58.   Weld also said Wednesday he was willing to settle for the automatic transfer of just first- and second-degree murder suspects to adult court.

59.   While Shirley Smith was maneuvering her way through the adult court system, Jenny found herself in Eastern Jackson County Youth Court.

60.   Prosecutor Jonathan Benedict had said he was considering dropping the case unless it was held in adult court.