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Today, I was watching the news and there had been a, a issue going on with this kid named Jah-Lah Vanderhorst who was 16 years old at the time that he had, um, unfortunately stabbed another young man who was 17, named Tyler Rhodes, from my hometown Albany in New York. So, he was going to court seeking to have his sentence reduced because of the fact that he was under 18 at the time that he had committed the offense. He was 16 years old, so he was seeking for youthful offender status, and the court decided to deny his motion for youthful offender status. However, the court, the judge decided to give him, um, 12 and a half years, uh, reducing his sentence from 25 to 12 and a half years. Now, there was a, outcry by certain elements of society who felt that, um, he was being given a, a lighter sentence or that justice wasn't being served.And this angered me because New York State, in 2017, passed the Raise The Age Bill. And the reason they passed that bill was based upon the science that said that people under 25