Michael A. Corriero, 69, who served as a judge in the state court system for 28 years, vividly recalls the trial he presided over of a 13-year-old, one of the first murder cases to be prosecuted in adult court under the 1978 Juvenile Offender Law. That trial crystallized for him the problems of treating children as adults in the criminal justice system—the effect of their immaturity on the admissibility of incriminating statements, their interactions with counsel and their understanding of the consequences of their behavior.
A graduate of St. John’s University School of Law, Mr. Corriero saw many kids like that during the years he presided over a Supreme Court Youth Part that heard the cases of 13-, 14- and 15-year-olds charged as adults with the most serious and violent crimes. He has used his judicial experience as a blueprint to change a system that forced him to imprison rather than to rehabilitate “misguided children.”
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