51.   He is regarded as an expert on juvenile justice, an unusual area of expertise on appellate courts.

52.   He spoke during a juvenile justice conference last month in Dallas.

53.   He was tossed into jail, expelled and, over the next three months, forced to go toe-to-toe with the juvenile justice system.

54.   House Republican leaders this week agreed to separate the gun control issues from a juvenile justice reform bill.

55.   House also approves measures allowing religious commemorations in schools as part of a juvenile justice bill.

56.   House and Senate negotiators are to meet this month to try to reconcile juvenile justice bills.

57.   However, lawmakers from both chambers of Congress began meeting on Thursday in an attempt to reconcile the differences between the juvenile justice bills.

58.   However, the majority leader, Trent Lott of Mississippi, has promised Democrats that they can offer a few gun control amendments to a Republican juvenile justice bill.

59.   In addition, every state has begun sending teen-agers involved in the most serious crimes into the adult courts and prisons, bypassing the juvenile justice system entirely.

60.   In addition, the juvenile justice bill to which such legislation might be amended next week is by no means guaranteed to pass the Senate.