Double murderer gets reduced sentence in Marshalls
MAJURO â Sentenced to 50 years in Majuro jail as a teenager for a gruesome double murder, rape and robbery in the rural Laura area of Majuro in 2017, Alee Phillip received a modest victory with the recent Marshall Islands Supreme Court decision eliminating his conviction for rape. The Supreme Court dismissed the rape conviction on a technicality: A victim must be alive for the perpetrator to be charged with rape under Marshall Islands law, which differentiates such a charge from necrophilia. The Supreme Court ruling will shave time off Phillipâs prison term, the longest in Marshall ...
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