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: ACS BlogLegal Group Asks High Court To Review Prison Sentence Of Youngster
The Equal Justice Initiative is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review a sentence of life imprisonment of a 13-year-old. EJI says the sentence imposed on Joe Sullivan when he was 13 is one of only two cases in the country where youngsters have been “sentenced to die in prison for an offense in which no one was killed.” All the sentences were issued by Florida courts, EJI notes. EJI in a cert petition before the high court says Sullivan’s sentence violates the Eight Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. The Sentencing Law and Policy Blog notes the case, saying it hopes the Supreme Court will review it.
Full post as published by ACS Blog on December 31, 1969 (boomark / email).
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