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| California’s Passage of Fair Sentencing Act Sets Stage for Rest of Country |
| By jjie.org - Jody Kent Lavy |
| Published: 10/17/2012 |
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Last month, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed the Fair Sentencing for Youth Act, state Senate Bill 9. This law creates a process to periodically review the progress of individuals sentenced to life without parole for crimes committed as youth, with the possibility of resentencing. It declares to Californians that their children — even those who have committed serious crimes — are better than their worst acts and, therefore, deserve a second chance at life. This is a value I know many Americans share, and it should be a common characteristic of our state laws. We demonstrated our belief in the inherent redeemability of children when we established a juvenile justice system: a system we made the error of bypassing when a now-disproven theory from the 1980s about juvenile “superpredators” caused us to start throwing away our children. But, as California and the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year in Miller v. Alabama have shown, the tide is turning. Read More. |
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Impartial jury trials are a right under our Constitution.
Consistency of law should be a value before any other. Life means life.
To call young adults children is to project them as feeble and tp appease wrong.The Supreme Court threw out life sentences and death sentences but no one is speaking up of restoring the previous 5th and 6th amendment rights that were taken by reforming young men and women in their teens that they once had before the progressives (1920) robbed these young adult teens the right to own land, to become entrepreneurs, and the same rights to always have a speedy jury trial and to have a right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness of any “person” under law. Instead the left and neo right is now planning on the “new homes” being large enough to accommodate a dead beat son to come home to and get health care with little or no incentive to break his bond with momma who will have an extra room for all “the underemployed” that is on the way for those with big degrees and no real work skills. The new post pubescent young adolescent is now nearing 26 in the jaundiced eye of surrogate father state. How many miles must a man walk down before they call him a man. To coddle young men with nurturing love past 13 years of age is quite “creepy”. Restore their total rights and liberty. Kagan must have had a hand in this strange arbitrary doctrine. To think life is going to be fair is foolish. Many times young adults are on the outside what the conformist is on the inside. The conformist and the rebellious person are chips off the block of someone else through judgment. (resentment)