YORK COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — Nolan Grove was 13 when he pulled the trigger, and he’s 15 now and in the York County Prison.
“There’s a lot to be learned from this case,” defense attorney Farley Holt said. “I guess the question goes back is whether or not he should have been tried as an adult to begin with.”
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Which could have happened in any state except California, the only state that prohibits charging children under sixteen as adults, regardless of the crime they’re accused of. Had Grove been charged as a juvenile, he would have been released no later than his 21st birthday. He was fourteen when prosecutors decided to charge him as an adult, meaning effectively, less than a seven-year sentence had he been charged as a juvenile…