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summer law internship program
J.D.B. v. North Carolina opinion
By:JaKira smith, D.M. Therrell High School
Atlanta Bar Association Summer Law Intern

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ge affects how a reasonable person would perceive his or her
freedom to leave.” This was the holding in the recent Supreme
Court Case J.D.B. v North Carolina on June 16, 2011. In this
case the Defendant only recognized as J.D.B. , a 13 years old, was
pulled out of his seventh grade special education Social Studies
class by a school police officer . He was then taking to a conference )ɽ