After 2016 ruling, battles over juvenile lifer cases persist in US

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 12:58:13 +0000

Norman Brown

About 400 offenders originally sentenced to life without parole as juveniles have been released nationwide, and hundreds of others have been resentenced to shorter terms or made eligible for release by law. But most remain behind bars as prosecutors and judges wrestle with difficult cases.

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