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"6-year-old sentenced to traffic school"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the title of this local article I found via a link from CNN. Here are the notable particulars: Even though mom got the ticket a Los Lunas magistrate judge isn't letting her child off the hook for refusing to buckle up. The child's mother, who was ticketed for failing to restrain her child, asked Judge John "Buddy" Sanchez if he could help discipline her 6-year-old. The boy always took his seat belt off despite her pleas, the mother said. "He took off his seat belt, I pulled over again and put it on and he took it off right in front of the cop," said Jessica who did not want to release her full name. In January Jessica was stopped and ticketed. She landed in front of Judge Sanchez last month and asked him to talk to her son...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 09, 2009 (boomark / email).