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Eighth Circuit Strands Missouri Prisoners Sentenced to Life Without Parole as Juveniles in ‘Opaque’ Review Process
Loaded on Nov. 30, 2022
by Douglas Ankney
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2022, page 18
Filed under:
U.S. Sentencing Guidelines,
Juvenile Offenses/Offenders,
Probation, Parole & Supervised Release.
Location:
Missouri.
by Douglas Ankney
On August 30, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit held that Missouri’s parole review process does not violate the constitutional rights of prisoners who were sentenced to life without parole (LWOP) as juveniles. The decision came after a rehearing of the full Court ...
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