Juvenile lifers await chance for parole after US ruling
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — It’s been six months since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that some 2,500 “juvenile lifers” could seek a chance at parole for their childhood crimes, but only a few aging inmates have walked out of prison.
Public defenders fear many will need the blessing of a judge, a parole board and perhaps the victim’s family, even after Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote that only the “rarest of children” are so “incorrigible” they should ne
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