Black Missouri teens increasingly tried disproportionately as adults

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Missouri has been prosecuting black teens as adults in increasingly disproportionate numbers

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"… . Missouri may be the only state with that express criterion, according to Mae Quinn (right), a law professor at Washington University and co-director of a leg …"