The article discusses the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) advocacy group and its release of the "A Living Death" study in 2013 which documents the thousands of Americans who are reportedly serving life without parole sentences for committing non-violent crimes. According to the article, the...
Sentence:After declining a 15 and 10 year offer to plead guilty, Michael was sentenced to mandatory life without parole as a “trial penalty” for exercising his Sixth Amendment Constitutional right to a jury trial and to confront witnesses testifying for lighter sentences. Time served:almost 37 ...
Val Fryatt, a cousin of Gregory Smart, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Smart “danced around it” and accepted full responsibility “without admitting the facts around what made her ‘fully responsible.’” Fryatt noted that Smart didn’t mention her cousin’s name in the ...
Val Fryatt, a cousin of Gregory Smart, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Smart “danced around it” and accepted full responsibility “without admitting the facts around what made her ‘fully responsible.’” Fryatt noted that Smart didn’t mention her cousin’s name in the...
(FOX 2) - The Oxford High School shooter plans to appeal the life without parole sentence he was given for the shooting that left four teens dead. According to court documents filed by the State Appellate Defender Office, new attorneys have taken on the case and will appeal the senten...
Marie Van Diest hopes life will become peaceful again she said outside Vernon Law Courts Tuesday after Matthew Foerster received a life sentence with no chance of parole for 17 years. Thick-rimmed glasses framed Foerster’s eyes, which were glued forward as he sat without moving ...
Some life sentences include terminology that states without the possibility of parole. In these sentences, the only way a convicted person can ever be released is if they appeal the sentence or the conviction and win or are granted a pardon. The following sections give some types of life ...
Matthew Foerster’s thick-rimmed glasses framed his eyes, which were glued forward as he sat without moving while Crown and defence put forward a joint submission for life imprisonment with no chance of parole for 17 years. Foerster pleaded guilty in March to second-degree murder in connection ...
murders were “especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel.” But one or more jurors also found mitigating factors, such as untreated issues he had as a child. In the end, the jury could not agree that the aggravating factors outweighed the mitigating ones, so Cruz will get life ...
Duncan said it was not a major change in part because life without parole sentences are still available as a sentence. In addition, Duncan argued that if the court were to apply the case retroactively it would require the re-litigation of facts that over time have been lost. ...