Juvenile Sentencing

MANHATTAN — The Second Circuit upheld a 55-year sentence imposed on a defendant who was 15 years old when he was involved in four “execution-style” murders of rival gang members as a member of the MS-13 gang.  While the length of the sentence is “especially harsh” for such a young defendant, it was legally reasonable because of how “especially heinous” the killings were.

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