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Noting SCOTUS disinterest in juve priors as basis for enhanced adult sentence

By Douglas A. Berman

The fact that the Supreme Court could soon announce new constitutional principles for sentencing juvenile offenders in in the pending Graham and Sullivan cases makes extra interesting the Justices' decision to deny cert in a case concerning juve priors and an Apprendi challenge from California.  This piece from the San Francisco Chronicle, which is headlined "'Three strikes' can count juvenile convictions," provides the details: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld California judges' authority to count adult felons' convictions in juvenile court in determining whether to sentence them to life in prison under the state's "three strikes" law. The court denied a San Jose man's appeal of his 2005 sentence for possessing a gun as a convicted felon...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 20, 2010 (boomark / email).