From Equal Justice Initiative, February 4, 2022
The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that imposing a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 years on a child is unconstitutional. People sentenced when they were children are now entitled to have their sentences reviewed after 20 years.
The court’s decision, issued in January, combined two cases in which children were sentenced under a New Jersey statute that required them to serve a minimum of 30 years without any chance for parole.
James Comer was 17 when he was involved in a robbery with another person who fatally shot a robbery victim. He was sentenced to the mandatory minimum of 30 years without parole for felony murder.
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