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Batts II: An Atrocity Towards Children
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
“Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Batts II Decision is an Atrocity Towards Child Offenders,” by Shakaboona. There was no victory in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Batts II case decision. In fact, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision was… Full Transcript
Philly Judges Seek Legal Lynching of Child Lifer
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
July 24-25, 2017, marks the date that Kempis “Ghani” Songster will have a highly-contested resentencing hearing in a Philadelphia courtroom, and we are calling every Woman, Man, and Child, to appear at the Courthouse in… Full Transcript
Pressure on Philly DA
Omar Askia Ali
My name is Omar Askia Ali AKA Edward Sistrunk. I’ve been incarcerated since 1971. In an article of the Philadelphia Daily News, 5/18/17, page 16, state that a man named Joseph Langley, incarcerated in 1953,… Full Transcript
PA Parole Chairman Rejects Special Protections for Child Lifer Prisoners
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
Leo Dunn, Chairman of Pennsylvania’s Board of Probation and Parole (PBPP) has been touring the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections’ (PDOC) prisons to discuss parole review hearings for child lifer prisoners.On January 9, 2017, Chairman Dunn… Full Transcript
On Politics
Family Day Program Fails to Deliver
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
The long-awaited Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PDOC) Juvenile Lifer Program’s “Friends Family Day For Child Lifers” was held in late October at SCI-Rockview for the 31 Child Lifers at that institution. Attended by officials from… Full Transcript
Juvenile Lifer Project: Symbol without Substance
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s rulings in Miller v. Alabama and Montgomery v. Louisiana, the PDOC Secretary John Wetzel has implemented the Juvenile Lifer Project (JLP) for the child lifers in the State prison system,… Full Transcript
Denial of Transfer Prevents Representation
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions in Miller v. Alabama and Montgomery v. Louisiana held that mandatory Life-Without-Parole (LWOP) sentences were unlawful for child homicide offenders and required trial courts to provide child homicide offenders a… Full Transcript
PA Federal Judge Says Re-sentencing To 35-Years-to-Life is Illegal
Philly DA Seth Williams Blocked Child Lifers’ Path to Freedom
Philly District Attorney Trades One Illegal Sentence For Another
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
Philadelphia District Attorney (D.A.) Seth Williams finally released his Juvenile Resentencing Protocol in compliance with the U.S. Supreme Court rulings in Miller vs. Alabama and Montgomery vs. Louisiana. D.A. Seth Williams has stated “we are… Full Transcript
PA Parole Board Lags Behind In Reform for Child Lifers
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole (PBPP) is in the pits when it comes to reforming the way it handles parole review of child offenders and child lifer prisoners. In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court… Full Transcript
PA Parole Board Refuses to Reform How They Review Child Lifer Prisoners for Parole Release
PA Courts and DAs are Hellbent on Railroading 500 Child Lifers at Sentencing
The Children of Perdition
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The recent decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Montgomery v. Louisiana (which made its previous Miller v. Alabama ruling (regarding life terms for juveniles retroactive), shined a harsh light on the systems which utilized… Full Transcript
Mandatory Life Without Parole May Violate 8th Amendment Under Miller
Pennsylvania Courts Must Extend Parole to 550 Child Offenders Serving Life Without Parole Sentences
Supreme Court Declares Miller Retroactive to All Children Sentenced to Life Without Parole
Judicial Fury
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court, in its Montgomery v. Louisiana decision, ruled that its earlier 2012 ruling in the Miller v. Alabama case, (limiting life sentences when it came to juvenile defendants) was indeed retroactive… Full Transcript
“Philly courts to give sham brief sentencing hearings to brother Ghani and other child lifers. by Kerry Shakaboona Marshall. Kempis Ghani Songster—sentenced death by incarceration, or life without parole, at 15 years old for murder—has… Full Transcript