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name is andrew hundley. he might look like a lawyer, but he's actually the first juvenile lifer in louisiana to be released because of montgomery's supreme court case. >> all right, all right. today's the day. >> oh, yes, sir. >> hundley served 19 years in prison. at age 15, hundley was out with a teenage girl when they got into an argument. he became enraged and beat her over the head with a metal rod, and then tried to get rid of her body by burning it. you committed a pretty savage crime. >> it was a horrible crime. an unexcusable crime. and there's nothing i can do that will be able to undo that. thankfully they were able to look and see how i had changed. >> so, if a parole board said that he changed after 19 years, what will it say about henry montgomery after 55 years? you're the first guy that got out and he's still here. >> yeah, there's a lot of guilt. i went to prison
Tennesseean Almeer Nance, a juvenile lifer, was featured in this 2021 Al Jazeera documentary. Almeer Nance was 16 when, with a 20-year-old acquaintance, he walked into a Knoxville, Tennessee, Radio Shack to commit what he thought would be a quick and simple robbery. Nance did not fire the shot that killed a clerk in […]
During the three years that Brontina Smith’s son spent in Alabama’s Elmore County Jail awaiting trial, he packed about 50 pounds onto what had been a 135-pound frame.
“So, now, it’s not letting the jury see that they’re dealing with a child,” said the mother of LaKeith Smith, who was 15 in February 2015 when he and a group of boys were caught burglarizing a home just outside of Montgomery.
After a watchful neighbor called 9-1-1, Millbrook Police Department officers arrived. There was an exchange of gunfire, police said. An officer shot and killed A’Donte Washington, one of the boy burglars, and later was cleared of wrongdoing.
LaKeith Smith, under Alabama’s felony murder law allowing prosecutors to charge a person considered an accomplice to a crime, was faulted for his friend’s death. No evidence that the teen fired or possessed a gun was presented during the trial.
Smith, now 23, should never have been in that group of boys, his mother said, making trouble with them.
He also should not be serving a 55-year sentence in a maximum-security prison for, as the law defines it, being an accomplice to murder, she added. Her son, she said, was just a boy on that February day.
continues to be opposition in the community and among the victim's family. and look, whether someone continues to pose a threat to society is a factor to be considered in whether they get released. >> but not the only factor? >> correct. it can't be the determinative factor to the exclusion of all others. >> both henry montgomery and clifford hampton face opposition from their victims'families. what will happen to them when they see the parole board? montgomery is about to find out. and someone has come to support him. his name is andrew hundley. he might look like a lawyer, but he's actually the first juvenile lifer in louisiana to be released because of montgomery's supreme court case. >> all right, all right. today's the day. >> oh, yes, sir. >> hundley served 19 years in prison. at age 15, hundley was out with a teenage girl when
victims'families. what will happen to them when they see the parole board? montgomery is about to find out. and someone has come to support him. his name is andrew hundley. he might look like a lawyer, but he's actually the first juvenile lifer in louisiana to be released because of montgomery's supreme court case. >> all right, all right. today's the day. >> oh, yes, sir. >> hundley served 19 years in prison. at age 15, hundley was out with a teenage girl when they got into an argument. he became enraged and beat her over the head with a metal rod and then tried to get rid of her body by burning it. you committed a pretty savage crime. >> it was a horrible crime. unexcusable crime. there's nothing i can do that will be able to undo that. thankfully they were able to look and see how i had changed. >> so if a parole board said
Sentencing set for juvenile lifer whose case set precedent KIM CHANDLER, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail In this Oct. 20, 2006 photo, Evan Miller, right, is escorted to the Lawrence County Courthouse in Moulton, Ala. A judge is set to decide the punishment for the Alabama man, sentenced to life in prison for a murder he committed at age 14, and whose case later led to a ban on mandatory life sentences for juveniles. The judge will decide Tuesday, April 27, 2021 if Evan Miller should be given an opportunity at parole one day or if he should die in prison because of a crime he committed as a teenager. (The Decatur Daily via AP, file)Decatur Daily/AP