Joe Ligon, the nation’s oldest juvenile lifer, was released from a Pennsylvania prison this month after a federal court ruled that his mandatory maximum sentence of life was unconstitutional ending a lengthy legal battle and giving the 83-year-old man the chance to start a new chapter.
Joe Ligon, the nation’s oldest juvenile lifer, was released from a Pennsylvania prison this month after a federal court ruled that his mandatory maximum sentence of life was unconstitutional ending a lengthy legal battle and giving the 83-year-old man the chance to start a new chapter.
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The nation’s oldest juvenile lifer walked out of prison Thursday morning after spending 68 years behind bars.
Joe Ligon, 82, was released from prison at 7:45 a.m. Thursday, nearly seven decades after he began his sentence in December 1953 at the age of 15, Maria A. Bivens, press secretary for the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections confirmed to
Oxygen.com.
In Ligon’s first hours of freedom as he traveled to the public defender’s City Center office, he was struck by the size of the massive buildings that had been erected in the years since he was incarcerated.
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) A man has been charged with burglary and abuse of a corpse in connection with a dismembered body found in a U-Haul truck in Philadelphia s Somerton section, authorities confirm to Action News.
Taray Herring, 47, was arraigned Saturday morning on those charges as well as counts of criminal trespass, theft, and evidence-tampering, according to court records. He was ordered held without bail.
Police responding to a burglary call in the Somerton neighborhood followed a U-Haul truck that drove away from the property. After they pulled the driver over, they reported finding the dismembered body in a trash bag in the rear of the truck. A weapon was also found. The driver and a passenger were arrested.