High Court Rejects Life Term in Lookout Case
From Times Wire Reports
The state Supreme Court rejected prosecutors’ requests for life imprisonment of a man who served as a lookout during a double murder when he was 15.
Leon Miller, 20, agreed on the spur of the moment in 1997 to stand watch while Chicago gang members killed two members of a rival group. He was tried as an adult and convicted of murder.
The law required an automatic life sentence, but the trial judge gave Miller 50 years, citing a constitutional amendment that says punishment must match the severity of the crime.
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