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Group works to change sentencing of teen in N.C.

By: Laura Wilkinson, Deputy News EditorWhat do New York and North Carolina have in common? Their prosecution of teenagers as adults.

North Carolina accompanies New York as one of two states that still automatically prosecutes all 16 and 17-year-olds in the adult court system, without regard to the type of crime the teen is charged with. A bill in the N.C. legislature is hoping to ch…