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Duplicitous Batts II Decision
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
On June 26, 2017, in a unanimous decision to bamboozle the public in the Batts II case, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices have released another duplicitous ruling against the fair and humane sentencing of children… Full Transcript
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
House Bill 2135 and Parole Eligibility for Life Sentence Prisoners
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
In a House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda posted May 25,2016 to all House members, Representative Jason Dawkins announced he will be introducing a bill in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives that will abolish Life-Without-Parole (LWOP) imprisonment in… Full Transcript
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 Refused to Reform How It Reviewed Child Lifer Prisoners for Parole Release
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
“Pennsylvania Parole Board Refused to Reform How it Reviewed Child Lifer Prisoners for Parole Release,” by Shakaboona. In this great sea of societal change, the people of America, followed by the United States Supreme Court, has… Full Transcript
The Free Virginia Movement
Uhuru Rowe
This is Comrade Uhuru of the Free Virginia Movement. As we inch ever so closer towards the September 9 anniversary of the Attica Prison Rebellion, which happened back in 1971, we, of the Free Virginia… Full Transcript
Pennsylvania Courts and DA’s are Hellbent on Railroading 500 Child Lifers at Resentencing
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
In a 6-3 decision, the nation’s high court, on January 25th, ruled in Montgomery v. Louisiana that its own 2012 ruling in Miller v. Alabama, holding mandatory life sentences without parole for child defenders to… Full Transcript
Prison Radio
Mumia Abu-Jamal
In 1992 Prison Radio began recordings from the state dungeon at Huntingdon Pennsylvania. If you walked in on us you would have thought you were in the control booth of a funky radio station. We… 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
Pennsylvania Need Not Create a New Law to Parole 550 Child Lifer Prisoners
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
On January 25, 2016 the United States Supreme Court decided the case of Montgomery v. Louisiana, holding that Miller v. Alabama’s prohibition on mandatory life without parole for child homicide offenders is retroactive, on state collateral… Full Transcript
A Summary Review of the Supreme Court’s Montgomery Decision
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
In Miller v. Alabama, the court held that mandatory life without parole for child homicide offenders violates the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, because a child under the age of eighteen convicted… Full Transcript
For the Youth Hope
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The U.S. Supreme Court issued another landmark ruling recently when it announced, in Montgomery V. Louisiana, that life imprisonment without parole was unconstitutional for juvenile prisoners, and that they should be granted new sentences or… Full Transcript
Kerry Shakaboona Marshall Reacts to Supreme Decision Interviewed by Noelle Hanrahan
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Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall: Hello. My name is Shakaboona. At 17 years old, I was sentenced to life without parole in the Pennsylvania State Prison system. Thus far, I have served 28 years in prison. I… 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