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Inmate who killed when he was 16 resentenced, gets chance at parole
By al.com- Kent Faulk
Published: 08/23/2016

Nathaniel Scroggins was 16 years old when he killed 19-year-old Richard Fields while the two sat in a car parked in a Birmingham neighborhood in December 1995.

Scroggins, who was convicted of capital murder because the shooting happened inside a car, faced serving the rest of his life in prison without a chance of ever being released on parole.

On Monday, however, Scroggins was given a chance at one day – possibly 11 years from now – of getting parole when he was re-sentenced by Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Teresa Pulliam. The resentencing came after a prosecutor agreed to the change - a move allowed by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling earlier this year.

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