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"Teenage rapist Jose Walle re-sentenced to 65 years in prison"

"Teenage rapist Jose Walle re-sentenced to 65 years in prison": The St. Petersburg Times has a news update that begins, "Circuit Judge Chet A. Tharpe didn't agree with a U.S. Supreme Court decision forcing him to re-sentence teenage rapist Jose Walle, who was only 13 when he terrorized two Apollo Beach waitresses at gunpoint. But he obeyed the highest court in the land, which deemed life sentences unconstitutional for juveniles who didn't kill. Walle hung his head as Tharpe sentenced him to 65 years in prison, which he will begin to serve after completing the 27 years he got in Pinellas for another rape. Taking into consideration credits prisoners get, he would be about 91 years old when he gets a chance at freedom."

Full post as published by How Appealing on November 17, 2010 (boomark / email).