I wasn’t talking about this case in particular, was talking more about the law in general.
But lets even go into this case, you have 14 year old boy with not much of anything now in your gang, sounds like probably an ok kid under a bad situation at this point though could be wrong, hasn’t been completely lost.. his buddy’s convince him to be lookout/driver for a robery, and it goes wrong... at 14 could the kid really forsee that possibility? Dubious, unless he was a hardened criminal..that he really could think that all the way through...
Again, I am not suggesting the kids should escape punishment, just saying the mandatory LWOPP law seems bad law because it is going to ensnare those that are not hardened criminals, and could turn things around, with those who are completely past saving.
I am not against throwing a kid in jail for life or even executing them under circumstances where it is clear without any shadow of a doubt they knew what they were doing etc.. (The hardned criminal) but I don’t think its appropriate that it be applied across the board to any case.
Given the environment he's in, I'd have a hard time believing that by the age of 14 the kid didn't know that armed robberies can go bad and when the do, people get shot.