Convicted Killer Loses Bid to Overturn Sentence
Charles “Andy” Williams, the former Santana High School student convicted of killing two boys in a shooting rampage at the campus, has lost a bid to overturn his 50-years-to-life prison sentence.
A three-member appellate panel unanimously rejected Williams’ argument that he should have been considered for placement in the California Youth Authority instead of prison and that a judge should have dropped a firearms charge that lengthened his term.
Williams, who was 15 at the time of the March 2001 shootings, also challenged a law requiring that he be tried as an adult and thus face a harsher sentence.
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