Appearing Thursday before the California Supreme Court, David Durchfort launched his argument about juvenile sentencing with a bold flourish. “My client will be eligible for parole exactly one century from next week,” he said, “but he didn’t kill anybody.”
Even though that’s not literally life without parole, Durchfort argued, it’s the functional equivalent, and therefore unconstitutional under a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision.
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