California Courts of Appeal
Mar. 25, 2015
State appellate panel affirms life sentence for juvenile
Ruling comes over a strong dissent that accused the majority of letting the sentencing judge avoid his duty to take account of an offender's lessened culpability as a juvenile in imposing a harsh term.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The 16-year-old son and brother of Crips gang members must serve a 120-years-to-life sentence for attempted murder despite a U.S. Supreme Court ban on life terms for non-homicide juvenile offenders, a state appellate panel has ruled.
The decision late Friday from a divided 4th District Court of Appeal panel in the Riverside County case reasoned that the sentence does not violate the ban because a recen...
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