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CNN covers Sullivan case as SCOTUS considers juve LWOP

By Douglas A. Berman

CNN has this new piece on a notable sentencing appeal, headlined " Sentenced as teen, convicted rapist appeals to highest court." The article is mostly focused on the pending cert petition from Joe Sullivan, whose case I have blogged here and here. Here are snippets: At 33, Joe Sullivan is serving a life term without the possibility of parole in a Florida prison while confined to a wheelchair. The crime for which he was convicted was brutal: burglary and the rape of a 72-year-old woman in Pensacola. The man's lawyers say the punishment was equally harsh, particularly for someone with Sullivan's circumstances. He was 13 at the time, and is one of only two people his age in the world, say his supporters, tried as an adult and sentenced to "die in prison" for a crime that wasn't a homicide...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 20, 2009 (boomark / email).