I can't recall another 14-year-old female charged with first-degree murder since I've been state attorney, but we have had males that young. |
Suffice to say, our murder rate is exceedingly high and exceedingly troublesome. |
To my knowledge, it has never been this high. Frankly, the way cases move through the criminal justice system, it's making it very, very difficult for my office to manage 91 murder cases. |