Parole must be an option in non-murder cases, majority rules
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has ruled that teenagers may not be locked up for life with no chance of parole if they haven't killed anyone.
By a 5-4 vote Monday, the court says the Constitution requires that young people serving life sentences must at least be considered for release.
The court ruled in the case of Terrance Graham, who was implicated in armed robberies when he was 16 and 17. Graham, now 22, is in prison in Florida, which holds more than 70 percent of juvenile defendants locked up for life for crimes other than homicide.
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5 comments:
I'm curious. Does anyone know the precedence they cited?
libs love their criminals. they need to stop loving the bad guys and start helping the good guys...
oh yes, because serving 25-30 years of my life for something stupid I did as a kid isn't bad enough already.
anon 5:04
depends on what u did if u did a hanus crime then yea u deserve it all 30 years of it don't do dumb sh!t u get no sympathy from me!!
msl
some types of homicide should be paroled depending on the nature and the age
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