juvenile offender
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Colorado justices ponder parole requirements for juvenile sex offenders amid constitutional challenge
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Colorado’s justices on Tuesday appeared to believe the state law authorizing lengthy sentences for adult sex offenders does, when applied to juveniles, account for the guardrails necessary to comply with the U.S. Constitution. However, that determination would only be a piece of the larger puzzle, due to the unusual manner in which the case of…
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Despite Supreme Court ruling, only one Colorado juvenile has been freed
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In light of Supreme Court decisions banning life without parole for juvenile offenders, dozens of Colorado prisoners who committed crimes as minors could be eligible for release, but only one has been freed. It’s been more than a year since the U.S. Supreme Court made retroactive its 2012 ban on such sentences. Many states are…
