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Despite the uncertainty, advocates are determined to push the court’s logic that kids are different to its fullest extent. “In the end, this decision impacts more than just criminal justice, since it recognizes the linkage between environment and criminality,” said LaBelle. But Yearout of the Michigan attorney general’s office said altering the sentence of any convicted murderer would be devastating for victims’ families. “These new, additional parole hearings would send victims’ lives into upheaval, forcing them to re-live the crime that took their loved one away forever,” Yearout said. “That cannot happen.”
Posted on: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 12:39:27 +0000

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