Stanislaus County (Modesto) Superior Court
By Emily Green
Daily Journal Staff Writer
MODESTO - Stanislaus County Judge Timothy W. Salter presides over a civil calendar now, but he is still remembered for the 132-year sentence he gave a criminal defendant who was 14 when he went on a shooting spree that left a man dead.
Criminal defense attorneys and youth advocates called the 2009 sentence inhumane and cruel, given the defendant's age. And indeed, in the following years, the U.S. Supreme Cour... (continued)
