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   From: mt999999@ymail.com   
      
   On 2/14/2021 8:32 PM, hamilton wrote:   
   > Joe Ligon, the nation’s oldest and longest-serving juvenile   
   > offender, has been released from prison after serving 68 years   
   > of a life sentence, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.   
   >   
   > Ligon pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in   
   > Philadelphia in 1953, when he was 15 years old. He was part of   
   > an assault and robbery spree that killed two people but has   
   > denied killing anyone himself and said he was scapegoated as an   
   > out-of-towner. However, he was sentenced to life without parole.   
   >   
   > A 2012 Supreme Court decision found sentences of life without   
   > the possibility of parole for juveniles to be cruel and unusual   
   > punishment, but Pennsylvania did not apply the ruling   
   > retroactively until a subsequent 2016 decision by the high court   
   > ordered states to do so.   
   >   
   > In 2017, Ligon was resentenced to 35 years to life with   
   > immediate eligibility for parole, but he didn't apply to be   
   > released on principle.   
   >   
   > “I like to be free,” Ligon said at the time. “With parole, you   
   > got to see the parole people every so often. You can’t leave the   
   > city without permission from parole. That’s part of freedom for   
   > me.”   
   >   
   > When Ligon refused parole, his attorney, Bradley Bridge of the   
   > Defender Association of Philadelphia, argued his mandatory   
   > maximum life sentence had been unconstitutional.   
   >   
   > “The constitution requires that the entire sentence, both the   
   > minimum and maximum terms imposed on a juvenile, be   
   > individualized — and a one size fits all cannot pass   
   > constitutional muster,” he wrote in federal court, according to   
   > The Philadelphia Inquirer.   
   >   
   > Anita Brody, senior U.S. district judge for the Eastern District   
   > of Pennsylvania, ordered Ligon be resentenced or released within   
   > 90 days in November, a period that expired Thursday.   
   >   
   > “I’m looking at all the tall buildings,” Ligon said Thursday as   
   > he took in the unfamiliar sights of the city upon release. “This   
   > is all new to me. This never existed.”   
   >   
   > https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/538833-nations-   
   > oldest-juvenile-offender-released-after-68-years?rl=1   
   >   
   I read about that in the Post Gazette!  I think it was the other   
   Sunday... crazy stuff.  What a shame that they locked him up all of   
   those years for no good reason.   
      
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