The crime Shanice Amanda Dyer committed as a 17-year-old was as horrific as it was seemingly random. Although Gascón’s juvenile policy is in line with a broader movement to keep youths out of adult prisons in California — where only a dozen teens were tried in adult court last year — Dyer could have faced life in prison for the …
SEATTLE — The Washington Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a new sentencing hearing for a man who was 15-years-old when he fatally shot two men and injured another. They based their decision on a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court decision that said mandatory life sentences for juveniles violates their constitutional rights. After the U.S. Supreme Court ruling prohibiting mandatory life sentences …
