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N.C. looks again at raising the juvenile justice age
- By Joe Gamm
- Mar 5, 2017
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GREENSBORO — Seventeen-year-old Jailene Sharpless was out one night in early December with some friends when they saw other people at a supposedly abandoned building.
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