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Social host law hard to enforce, DAs say

Snags cited in teen drinking cases

By Scott Helman and Maria Sacchetti
Globe Staff / January 8, 2006

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In the summer of 2003, tragedy struck twice on the South Shore. Three teenage girls, two from Weymouth and one from Scituate, were killed in two drunken-driving accidents in the span of two weeks after parties where minors were drinking. Prosecutors brought charges against the party hosts under the state's Social Host Responsibility Law, which makes it a crime to ... (Full article: 1323 words)

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