Washington ? The Supreme Court took up several issues Monday:

• It considered whether police must take extra care when questioning young people about crimes, part of the court’s broad review this year of the familiar warning that begins “You have the right to remain silent.”
• It agreed to decide whether state prisons may separate new inmates by race as a safety measure.
• It said it would review rules for defense lawyers in death penalty cases, in a case involving a Florida man whose lawyer told the jury his client was guilty and focused on persuading jurors not to sentence him to death.
• It sidestepped a California gay adoption case, declining to consider the rights of a birth mother who wants to prevent her former partner from adopting a child they once planned to raise together.
• It refused to reinstate a lawsuit challenging the Bush administration’s decision to freeze assets of a Muslim charity accused of financing the militant Islamic group Hamas.