1.   Also, two other juveniles have been charged and are awaiting a hearing later this month that could send them to adult court to face murder charges.

2.   And high school students who commit violent crimes find themselves tried, at a record rate, in adult court.

3.   And reoffenses by minors who had been through adult courts occurred sooner than those dealt with by the juvenile courts.

4.   Arizona voted for mandatory transfer of violent youth to adult court after hearing that the juvenile system was inadequate to deal with modern kids.

5.   As a result, more and more states are moving to have youths transferred automatically to adult court.

6.   At the hearing, prosecutors will present several witnesses to bolster their case against Skakel and will urge that the case be moved to adult court.

7.   A juvenile court judge, however, transferred the case to adult court, where Skakel faces a sentence of up to life in prison if convicted.

8.   But once Massey was sent to adult court, conviction of aggravated murder dictated a sentence of life without parole.

9.   But the judges tend to blame the politicians who have passed laws to try more teen-agers in adult courts.

10.   Children who cause a death are now hauled off to adult jail and tried in adult court.