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shooting and hadn't followed his probation officer's instructions. The incidents all involved drinking and drugs, not violence, but punishments and restrictions from Kruthoff's parents and his probation officer didn't stop the behavior, the judge said.
• "All efforts at formal and informal corrections have had little, if any, effect on Kruthoff," Judge Zell wrote in his opinion.
• Zell also said that less than three years in juvenile custody is not enough.
• "This is especially true in light of the fact that while Kruthoff was being exposed to these various services prior to this offense occurring, Kruthoff, when given numerous opportunities to disengage from this highly dangerous and criminal activity, chose to go forward right up to the moments of pulling the trigger . twice," Zell wrote.
• The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that juveniles are not eligible for the death penalty or for sentences of mandatory life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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AP News in Brief
Iraqi Shiite militia parades with heavy weaponry in challenge to Sunni insurgents
• BAGHDAD (AP) -- Thousands of Shiite militiamen have paraded in Baghdad and several other cities in southern Iraq with heavy weaponry, signaling their readiness to take on Sunni militants who seized much of the country's north.
• In Baghdad, about 20,000 men, many in combat gear, marched through the Sadr City district on Saturday with assault rifles, machine-guns, multiple rocket launchers and missiles. Similar parades were held in the southern cities of Amarah and Basra, with the militants in Basra displaying field artillery pieces hauled by heavy trucks.
• The parades were staged by followers of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and came after the al-Qaida breakaway Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and allied Sunni militants, captured a crossing on the Syria-Iraq border the day before.
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Violence amid sectarian divide in Iraq offers hint of vindication for VP Biden's rejected plan
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- As Iraq edges toward chaos, Joe Biden is having a quiet I-told-you-so moment.
• In 2006, Biden was a senator from Delaware gearing up for a presidential campaign when he proposed that Iraq be divided into three semi-independent regions for Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds. Follow his plan, he said, and U.S. troops could be out (Continued on page 27)
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