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When He Was 16, This Man Threw One Punch—and Went to Jail for Life
Will the Supreme Court give him, and hundreds like him, a chance at freedom? The defendant, Taurus Buchanan, stood charged with second-degree murder—accused of throwing, at the age of 16, a single, deadly punch in a street fight among kids. If convicted, an automatic sentence would fate him to spend the rest of his life in prison, with no hope for parole. A section chief in the East Baton Rouge District Attorney's Office had told Clayton that securing a murder conviction...
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