In its ruling Tuesday, the Supreme Court said juveniles convicted of sex offenses before age 14 should be given a second chance if they complied with court-ordered treatments and could prove they had been rehabilitated by their 18th birthdays. This ended up being a life sentence, or a potential life sentence,'' said Craig Hubert, an attorney representing the boy, publicly identified only as J.G. Authorities had classified the boy as a moderate-risk sex offender and sought to notify officials at his high school and other schools. The Supreme Court said Tuesday that was unwarranted. Emily Hornaday, a spokeswoman for the attorney general's office, said the agency was pleased that despite the ruling the court affirmed the basic notion that sex-offender laws can be applied to juveniles. She said lawyers had been seeking to have the law nullified for all minors.
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