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New Heritage Foundation report defending juve LWOP sentences

By Douglas A. Berman

I just learned of a timely new report released this past week by The Heritage Foundation on the topic of life sentences for certain juvenile offenders. The report, which is available at this link, is titled "Adult Times for Adult Crimes: Life Without Parole for Juvenile Killers and Violent Teens," and is authored by Charles Stimson and Andrew Grossman.  As its title suggests, this lengthy report reads like an amicus brief in support of states seeking to defend the use of LWOP for juve offenders in the upcoming SCOTUS cases Graham and Sullivan. The report has an executive summary that starts this way: Life without parole for the very worst juvenile offenders is reasonable, constitutional, and (appropriately) rare.  In response to the Western world?s worst juvenile crime problem, U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 23, 2009 (boomark / email).