WHEN A GEORGIA juvenile court judge ordered state officials to move a juvenile accused of delinquency to a detention facility closer to the courthouse in January, the state had a somewhat unusual response: Thanks for the suggestion, judge.
The child defendant in question is charged in Pike County, but the state is holding him in a facility in Muscogee County, according to his lawyer, J. Scott Key of Sexton & Key. That amounts to a trip of about 65 miles each way to and from the courthouse that can take as long as an hour and a half-and a two-to-three-hour drive from Key’s office in Stockbridge.
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