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Lifers
cont’d from pg 9
indistinguishable from a
sentence of life without
parole, is therefore un-
constitutional.”
Atwell awaits a new
sentencing hearing.
Iowa’s highest court in
2013 found that the gov-
ernor didn’t comply with
the U.S. Supreme Court
when he commuted the
life-without-parole sen-
tences of 38 juveniles to
life with the possibility
of parole aft er 60 years,
because they wouldn’t
be eligible until they sur-
pass their life expectan-
cy.
“Oft entimes, it is im-
portant that the spirit of
the law not be lost in the
application,” the court
wrote.
More legal challenges
have been fi led in North
Carolina, Illinois and
Missouri, among other
states.
Maryland, Oklahoma
and California are the
only three states that
require the governor to
sign off on parole recom-
mendations for lifers.
Last year the Ameri-
can Civil Liberties Union
sued Maryland, arguing
that a life-with-parole
sentence doesn’t aff ord
prisoners a meaningful
shot at release because
governors for two de-
cades haven’t approved
any petitions.
Even Parris Glenden-
ing, the former Mary-
land governor who set
the standard when he
declared in 1995 that “life
means life,” says the sys-
tem he designed is dys-
functional.
“What happens with
lifers now, I had some
responsibility. And I say
that not with pride, but
with regret,” Glendening
told the AP. “What we’re
fi nding now is people
who are juveniles ... they
are now aging in prison,
are probably a threat to
no one at this stage.
It’s a question of hu-
mane treatment: Is it
humane or cruel and un-
usual to have someone
sitting in jail at 50, 60, 70
for an off ense committed
half a century ago?”
Maryland’s
parole
commission in October
began reviewing all 271
lifers who committed
crimes as juveniles, ac-
cording to commission
chairman David Blum-
berg. As of May, the com-
mission had reviewed
76 cases: 45 have been
scheduled for addition-
al hearings, 20 were re-
ferred for psychological
risk assessments, and
nine were refused pa-
role. Two asked for post-
ponements. None has
been released.
Gov. Larry Hogan said
he and his team take the
process seriously.
“They meet with the
inmate. ... They talk with
the victim’s families and
witnesses and spend
months and months,” he
said.
“And in a few cases I
was convinced that peo-
ple had served their debt
to society and deserved a
second chance, and sev-
eral of them were peo-
ple that were convicted
at a very young age and
had served long, long
sentences and had been
model prisoners and re-
ally rehabilitated them-
selves.”
But Hogan hasn’t ap-
proved any parole bids
“
serving life sentences
for parole per year since
1995, according to public
defender James John-
ston, who says the state’s
system contravenes the
The Supreme Court was
very clear to say that age-re-
lated factors need to be
considered at resentencing
or parole review, but the
feedback we’re seeing is that
those factors aren’t being
considered
for juvenile lifers.
The commission, on av-
erage, has recommended
fewer than two prisoners
essence of the Supreme
Court rulings.
Johnston is at the fore-
front of a battle over
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In prison, Boyd earned
degrees, stayed out of
trouble, coached boxing.
For years he unsuccess-
fully applied for parole.
But in April 2016, he was
released on probation af-
ter Johnston convinced a
judge to reopen the case,
arguing that Maryland’s
system didn’t aff ord Boyd
a meaningful chance at
parole and was therefore
unconstitutional.
“Maryland
inmates
serving life sentences
are forced to resort to
the court system instead
of the parole system, be-
cause the parole system
off ers no real chance of
release,” Johnston said.
“The focus has shift ed
from ... taking advantage
of whatever is off ered to
you behind bars.
That no longer results
in release, or even gets
you closer to the door. In-
stead, you’ve got to fi nd
a reason to get back in
front of a judge.”
By the time Boyd was
released, aft er 34 years
behind bars, even Brian
Murphy, the prosecu-
tor who tried the case in
1982, off ered to testify on
his behalf.
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whether even Mary-
land’s juvenile life-with-
out-parole sentences fall
under the high court’s
mandate for review.
Prosecutors say no, be-
cause the sentences ar-
en’t mandatory.
In June, Johnston ar-
gued before a Maryland
judge that Lee Malvo,
one of the D.C. snip-
ers who terrorized the
Washington area for a
month in 2002, deserved
a new sentence. He was
17 and pleaded guilty to
murder charges in Vir-
ginia and Maryland. He
received life without pa-
role in both states, but a
Virginia judge recently
ruled the term uncon-
stitutional and ordered
Malvo resentenced.
In Maryland, prosecu-
tors say the judge made
an informed decision. A
ruling is pending.
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clients, Robert Boyd, was
sentenced to life at 16 for
his role in a home inva-
sion that turned deadly
in Baltimore.
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standing watch on the
porch. The man who
fi red the fatal shot was
acquitted at trial.
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