these girls should be locked up for a few years tho.
its not like its a 1 on 1 fight that went wrong. its a jumping that went wrong. so yea, they deserve juvi, boot camp, whatever. pack em up and send them a way for a few years.
but no way should they get the book thrown at them.
it doesnt matter if its 1 on 1 or 1 on 3. ask me how many times have i seen girls jump each other. which i think is wack and scary. i've seen it a lot of times. do those kids need to be expelled? for sure. do they need crazy probation? yep. do they need a few years in jail? NO. that wont do anything but destroy them for good. with their records alone their lives may be over. you put them behind bars and that might be the end of it. now unless thats your point. unless you're aiming to destroy their lives trying to get revenge for the other girls ACCIDENTAL DEATH. then it is what it is. but you can't get revenge because the person will never come back regardless of what you do to these other kids. remember they were kids. 17 is still a teen. again scientists say kids dont start understanding all the consequences of their actions until 20 something. which is why no kid should ever be tried as an adult no matter how crazy the crime may be. you try kids as kids. no matter what they do. now if that means after they get out of jail they are deemed crazy and have to go to a crazy house. so be it.
ask them girls on a lie detector test. "when you jumped her was your intent to kill her and for her to never wake up again?
"when you thought about fighting her did you rationalize the reality that their is a slight chance she could die in the fight and that would mean she's never coming back to her parents, her friends, etc which also means your life will be ruined let alone the fact you will have a body on your head for the rest of your life. thats in your mind that you may have done something that helped a person end up dead.?"
the answer to those questions would be NO and NO. because kids dont think that deeply about anything.