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- Title
THE PAST COMING BACK TO HAUNT THEM: THE PROSECUTION AND SENTENCING OF ONCE DEADLY BUT NOW ELDERLY CRIMINALS.
- Authors
Porcella, Kelly
- Abstract
The article argues that courtroom sympathy and lenient sentencing should not be given to elderly evaders. The elderly criminals are classified into chronic offenders, young-first-timers sentenced to long mandatory prison terms, elderly prisoners serving time for a crime committed while elderly and people who committed serious crimes in their younger days but have been prosecuted and sentenced in their old age. The U.S. courts held that the law does not recognize a distinction of age.
- Subjects
UNITED States; OLDER offenders; CRIMINALS; CRIMINAL sentencing; IMPRISONMENT; JUSTICE administration
- Publication
St. John's Law Review, 2007, Vol 81, Issue 1, p369
- ISSN
0036-2905
- Publication type
Article