Explaining the sentence

BOSTON — The First Circuit held that a Puerto Rico judge should have resentence a defendant who was given 30 years for a kidnapping that resulted in death. “None of the sentencing court’s comments even hinted at” the fact that the defendant had just turned 18 at the time of the crime, which was his chief argument for mitigation. The statutory minimum was 10 years.

Read the ruling here.

Categories / Appeals, Briefs, Criminal

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