California Supreme Court
May 7, 2014
State high court: Juvenile offenders should not get "presumptive" life sentences
Judges have misinterpreted a California law for 20 years to say certain juvenile offenders should be "presumptively" sentenced to mandatory life sentences, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Judges have misinterpreted a California law for 20 years to say certain juvenile offenders should be "presumptively" sentenced to mandatory life sentences, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday.
The law was challenged for violating the spirit of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision curtailing the use of life sentences for juvenile offenders.
The ruling remands for resentencing two j...
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