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House Bill 135
Omar Askia Ali
My name is Edward Sistrunk, AKA Omar Askia Ali. In most states, there is parole eligibility for life-sentence prisoners. However, that is not the case in Pennsylvania. Therefore, House Bill 135 has been submitted for… 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
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
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 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
Mandatory Life Without Parole May Violate 8th Amendment Under Miller
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
In Miller v. Alabama, United States Supreme Court held that imposing a mandatory sentence on a child offender constituted a cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment. The question remained whether the… Full Transcript
Pennsylvania Courts Must Extend Parole to 550 Child Offenders Serving Life Without Parole Sentences
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
In the aftermath of Miller v. Alabama, a case that abolished automatic life without parole sentencing of children convicted of murder, the question has arisen whether its holding in Miller is retroactive to child offenders… Full Transcript
Supreme Court Declares Miller Retroactive to All Children Sentenced to Life Without Parole
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
In a six three decision, the Supreme Court of the United States held in Montgomery v. Louisiana that Miller’s prohibition on automatic life without parole sentences for child homicide offenders announced a new substantive rule… 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 Court Decision
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
Kerry Shakaboona Marshall: All the juvenile or child lifers within the state of Pennsylvania, over 500 of them and thousands more across the country, is going to be elated to know that they may get… Full Transcript
In most states in America, there’s parole eligibility for people with a life sentence, but not in Pennsylvania. However, the remedy for Pennsylvania is a legislative bill in order to be in lockstep with the… Full Transcript