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Tag: juvenile sentencing

Posted inJustice, Social Justice

Court vacates sentence for teen gang member given life without parole

by Steve Crane Jul 10, 2019Nov 5, 2019

WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court vacated the sentence for a Phoenix-area gang member who was still a teen when he got a mandatory life without parole sentence for crimes that “terrorized” the Salt River reservation in the 1990s. A divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Tuesday that since Riley Briones Jr.’s sentencing […]

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