February 2012Sorry bits 15/02/2012The Pennsylvania Superior Court will not hear arguments until March 28 over whether Jordan Brown should be released from detention while the same court decides whether to allow his juvenile trial to be open to the public. Attorneys for Jordan Brown, who is now 14 and has been in the Edmund L. Thomas Adolescent Detention Center in Erie for three years, say he should be immediately released because he has been detained too long without a juvenile trial. Jordan’s delinquency hearing had been scheduled in September but was delayed by appeals filed by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and the New Castle News to open the proceeding. A three-judge panel heard arguments on behalf of the newspapers last month but has no timeline to make its decision. Lawrence County judge John Hodge denied a writ of habeas corpus in October, which prompted Jordan’s attorneys to file an appeal with the Superior Court. The Juvenile Law Center of Philadelphia is assisting Jordan’s attorneys with this appeal.
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