ALBANY – Gov. Andrew Cuomo Wednesday backed an increase in the age of criminal responsibility to 18 from 16, a change also championed by Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman.
The governor said in his State of the State address that New York and North Carolina are the only states that allow teens as young as 16 to be prosecuted in adult criminal courts.
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