WA: "this is not a joke - this is my life"

Here is a particularly thoughtful presentation from the Seattle P-I of the shock waves from one juvenile manslaughter case, where the accused and the victim are members of the same family:

One Fatal Shot: A struggle to forgive one son, not forget the other

What Jordan remembers from the night he killed his stepbrother is Michael sitting on the floor in the basement bedroom they had shared since childhood, his back against the futon, reaching for the gun in Jordan's hand. Or maybe Mikey was just reaching forward to stand up -- Jordan isn't sure...

For Jordan Jantoc, the year after that night last September has been a series of jail cells, courtrooms and lawyers' offices, where adults deliberated over how to charge the lumbering, round-faced teenager for a death family members insist was accidental. Three judges have weighed in...

On Friday, when he is finally sentenced, Jordan will face up to 8 1/2 years in state prison in a case that underscores the stunning ease with which children can get guns. Yet the mechanics of King County's legal system look streamlined compared with daily life in Jordan's home...

One of the audio portions of the presentation mentions a standard sentencing range of 78 to 102 months, indicating that Jantoc is being prosecuted as an adult.