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Appeals court upholds constitutionality of lifetime sentence for 18-year-old involved in gang shooting
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Hector Manuel Castillo drove the car from which his passenger, Alberto Valles, shot and fatally wounded the occupant of a rival gang member’s vehicle. Both were convicted of first-degree extreme indifference murder. Castillo, who was 18 years and six months old at the time of the killing, received a sentence of life in prison without…


