No Early Release For Former Teen Shooter, 9th Circ. Affirms

By Elizabeth Daley ( July 22, 2025, 9:11 PM EDT) -- A Ninth Circuit panel declined to grant an early release to a man serving 70 years in prison for a gang-related shooting he committed at age 16, finding that neither the length of his sentence nor his youth at the time of conviction amounted to the type of "extraordinary" circumstances allowing him compassionate relief....

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