Lisa Alexander's autistic teenage son, Reginald "Neli" Latson, was convicted of assaulting a law enforcement officer in Stafford County, Va., and could be sentenced to more than 10 years in prison.
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When a Stafford County jury this month found an autistic teenager guilty of assaulting a law enforcement officer and recommended that he spend 101/2 years in prison, a woman in the second row sobbed.
RICHMOND - In the beginning, several Northern Virginia families whose children have autism thought that their wrenching stories would be enough to get some help from their representatives in the General Assembly.