A federal appeals court Tuesday rejected a constitutional challenge to the state’s parole system by inmates who were sent to prison decades ago for crimes they committed as juveniles. A three-judge ...
— -- WASHINGTON - Juveniles convicted of murder can't be automatically sentenced to life in prison without parole, a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday. The 5-4 ruling, involving two 14-year ...
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday threw out mandatory life in prison without parole for juveniles. The ruling continued its trend of holding that children cannot be automatically punished the ...
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court appeared ready Tuesday to say anew that young people who commit even the most brutal crimes should not be punished as harshly as adults, taking up a pair of cases ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Back before a judge again, a man who murdered a young woman in Grand Rapids not long before his 18th birthday was granted a new sentence that will eventually make him ...
The Louisiana Supreme Court ruled Friday that the state can challenge a lower court's decision to grant parole to Dale Dwayne ...
Jermayne Timmons was 15 years old when he fired a gun at a group of rival teens in Albany. The bullet missed the teens but fatally struck 10-year-old Kathina Thomas as she played outside her nearby ...