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PA lifers turn to Supreme Court for sentencing relief
The petitioners say more than 1,100 people remain stuck under unconstitutional sentences and urge the court to make its March ruling apply retroactively.
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The Daily ItemAttorneys urge Pa. Supreme Court to apply second-degree resentencing ruling retroactively
Some aging prisoners who have served decades in prison under a now-unconstitutional life sentence for second-degree murder don't have time to wait for a lengthy resentencing process, attorneys argue.
PA lifers turn to Supreme Court for sentencing relief
In the face of legislative inaction, four people serving mandatory life for second-degree murder want the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to step in and open a pathway for sentences like theirs to be reconsidered. Their Thursday morning filings ask the court to intervene quickly through a rare legal process known as a King’s Bench petition. This type of filing allows the state Supreme Court to take up a legal matter directly, bypassing lower courts a…
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