Trump Issues Pardon But Not the One Kim K Wanted
"Cyntoia's sentence is wholly disproportionate for a 16-year-old girl, and therefore unconstitutional," Marsha Levick, deputy director and chief counsel for the Juvenile Law Center, said in a statement.
Riya Saha Shah, senior supervising lawyer at the Juvenile Law Center, said sentencing practices in Tennessee were "unduly harsh, foreclosing both any realistic opportunity for parole or any individualised consideration."
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