Ashley Toye, the girlfriend of Cash Feenz ringleader Kemar Johnson, had her motion for new sentence considered, and denied a few days ago. I missed the hearing, unfortunately, but Matt Grant from Fox4 news was there with the details. Ms. Toye’s case is interesting, as she was a juvenile at the time of the offense, and was sentenced to a mandatory life sentence, in spite of the fact that she was not involved in the actual killing. Recent Supreme Court decisions cast that automatic life sentence into doubt. However, a judge in Miami has ruled that the ruling is not retroactive, and Ms. Toye’s judge ruled that the sentence would stand. Ms. Toye’s attorney, Stu Pepper, intends to continue trying to get her sentence reconsidered.
Off the cuff, it strikes me that even if the ruling isn’t retroactive, it would still hold that if the sentence was unconstitutional, Ms. Toye’s sentence would…
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