Victim asks judge to not send boys to adult court
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – Three young robbery suspects will likely spend time in juvenile lockup, but their case was kept out of adult court because the victim asked. Monroe Davis told a Shelby County Juvenile Court judge he didn’t want the teens sent to adult court, even though he feared for his life when one of them – just 13 at the time – stuck a gun in his face and demanded money. At a Wednesday hearing, where prosecutors argued the case should be treated as an adult crime, Davis told the court the boys – now ages 14, 15 and 16 – might come out worse than when they went in. The youngest among them had only a previous citation for possession of brass knuckles. Both older boys had criminal histories involving guns.
