“In a matter of moments, alone, injured, and outnumbered, Miles Jones had to do something he never wanted to do,” Hone said, adding that his client had no “malice in his heart” and never intended to kill anyone. He said he then tried to leave but was hobbled by a foot injury and when the crowd approached again he used the gun to prevent another assault.ĭefense attorney Kenneth Hone, who declined comment after the verdict, had asked jurors Friday for an acquittal, saying Jones feared for his life and acted in self-defense. Hawaiian prosecutors want to put Isabella Kalua's adoptive parents in prison for life with no parole if they are found guilty, court papers show. Jones took the stand Wednesday and said he was assaulted and then forced into a car, where he grabbed a gun he had for protection against bears. Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit Superior Court Chief Judge Brenda H. Alabama that mandatory sentencing of life without parole for juvenile offenders was cruel and unusual punishment. The judge can impose a life term without parole, a sentence that has never been used in New Zealand.
A whole life term means theres no minimum term set by the judge, and the persons. no parole A murder conviction carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison. Braxton, 41, was a teacher at a Philadelphia charter school and Hill, 46, worked with troubled juveniles in Norristown. Donnie Rowe will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole. A court may choose to give a life sentence for serious offences like. Prosecutors said an early morning argument began between Jones and his girlfriend, and he was persuaded to leave to calm down but returned with a 9mm handgun and shot Eric Braxton and Arthur Hill.