Twenty-Five Year Review of Sentences to Life Without Parole

Published for NC Criminal Law on May 19, 2016.

I have started to get questions about G.S. 15A-1380.5, a repealed statute that used to provide for judicial review of sentences to life without parole after 25 years of imprisonment. It’s too early for a court to be applying the law just yet—the first reviews shouldn’t happen until 2019—but we’re getting close, and people are ... Read more

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