(CNN) –– Joe Ligon, who is considered to be the minor condemned to the most elusive path of EE.UU. and that the mayor lives time in prison, salión un un carcel de Pensilvania despu de de pasar casi siete dasas tras las rejas.
Ligon was born in February 1953 when he was 15 years old. The perpetrators will also be able to declare guilty charges against a robbery and felony criminal mischief in Philadelphia with other teenagers. The crime led to six deaths and deaths, identified by the Philadelphia Enquirer diary as Charles Pitts and Jackson Hamm.
“Me atraparon, in terms of being on call,” Ligon told CNN after his release last week.
An audition of liability declared to Ligon is responsible for the first-degree assessments, and Ligon admittó has been appraised for at least one of the eligible persons this day. Without embarrassment, his lawyer Bradley Bridge told CNN that his client was never killed.
“The ninth comet of these delights in 1953 does not exist. The person who went to prison in 2021 is 83 years old. It has been created, changed and is not an amenity », says Bridge. “She has contributed extensively to the society for the day and the blessings she caused. And now, it’s appropriate that the last years of his life in freedom pass, ”the lawyer completed.
“Now I’m an adult”, said Ligon. «Ya no soy un niño. Geen solo soy un adult malbe, soy un hombre burgemeester y envejezco cada día », añadió.
Well, Ligon’s truck is free to do so.
In the 1970s, Ligon and his accomplices obvoted the option of the governor of Pennsylvania. Although many men choose to accept the offer, the most important indulgence is in conditional freedom. Algo que Ligon rechazó.
Joe Ligon Reaches Conditional Liberty
Ligon also filed another conditional release offer in 2017, despite a case of the Supreme Court of the United States hitting its electorate.
One year earlier, in 2016, the High Court ruled that the case Miller vs. Alabama –– a fall from 2012 in which the sentences of life for minor conditions without the possibility of conditional liberty are considered illegal–– should apply retroactively. The full decision was made to join Ligon 35 years ago. However, he is eligible for conditional release and has been in prison for more than 60 years.
Aún así Ligon declined the offer again. It is said that conditional liberties do not constitute liberties that are deserved after decades of imprisonment.
“The conditional liberty junta presumably presupposes the freedom in freedom. “But, with the condition that they’ve been under surveillance for the rest of their life,” Bridge explained. “He does not seek the conditional freedom of these terms,” he added.
Bridge, who represented Ligon for 15 years, argued in the last instance that an unconstitutional sentence was obligatory on the part of a crime that Ligon committed when he was under oath. In the wake of a failed court hearing in the Pennsylvania court of appeals, Bridge will take the case to federal court. Alli won the ascent in November 2020, which will finally bring to Liberty freedom both its proposed terms in 2021.
Now that Ligon is running for office, he has begun his work of reintegration into society.
John Pace, an exclusive and current Coordinator of the Youth Sentence and Reign Project (YSRP, by his seal in English) with a seat in Philadelphia, said he was working with League to help him win the prize.
Only ten years have passed since he was arrested for trying to seduce a man. Passed the next 31 years in prison. When it comes to living in freedom, it is clear that a species that is malnourished has been exposed to its new reality.
Go to a new world
«Estás en un ambiente carcelario do not need to estimate hay much. No contact person can be allowed. Your interactions are very limited. For that matter, no hooi mucha estimation », said Pace. “If you’ve been selling the card and imagining it all, you can do what you want. What do you do with it? », Agregó.
Bridge, Pace and various others have been working with Ligon to sort out the impact of entering a new world.
This excursion includes a sight to see in Ligon through domicile attendance. He was living with a family in Philadelphia, who was serving a paper in the reintegration process.
“Always have people thinking that Joe must be in the cell for the rest of his life,” said Pace. «Joe has control over how demonstrated he is. It is hoped that this will be enough to help other people get rid of it as it will help them to use more juice ».
Ligon dijo que quería que otros aprendieran de su Experience.
“I have a lot of feelings for complaining about the people and helping the people of the form in which I am helping them,” he said. And aggregate: “Call some of the more young generation, some of the mayors and some of the periodists… to share some of my history”.
When the question arises whether there will be regression in the world a day and a month after its release, Ligon reads the following:
“Hermoso”, dijo. “Hermoso”.