Newspaper seeks ex-pvt.’s juvenile file

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Newspaper seeks ex-pvt.’s juvenile file
The Associated Press
Posted : Saturday May 24, 2008 16:05:32 EDT

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A newspaper is seeking a judge’s permission to inspect the juvenile court file of an Iraq war veteran now charged with murder in an Army comrade’s death.

Juvenile court records are normally sealed, but an attorney for The Courier-Journal of Louisville asked Jefferson County District Judge Angela McCormick Bisig to open Kenneth Eastridge’s file.

Eastridge, formerly of Louisville, was 12 years old in 1996 when he was convicted of reckless homicide in juvenile court in Jefferson County. He was convicted in the shooting death of Billy Bowman, who was also 12.

Now 24, the former Army private is charged in Colorado Springs, Colo., along with two other members of his former unit in the death of Spc. Kevin Shields.

Eastridge has pleaded not guilty to Shields’ slaying. He is being held in a Colorado Springs jail in lieu of a $350,000 bond and is scheduled to be tried in July.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/05/ap_juvenilerecords_052408/

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1. WTF! A newspaper wants the records? A newspaper?