Joseph Ligon was only 15 years old when he was detained by a group of teenagers who were trying to seduce someone. aquello ocurrió en 1953. La semana pasada, 63 años después, Ligon prison cell as a man completely free.
At 83 years old, Joe, as the woman who knows the cone, abandoned his confinement in the Correccional Estatal Phoenix in the county of Montgomery, in the state of Pennsylvania, accompanied by his abbot and a dozen cadets in which he lived. vida entera recluido.
At the moment Joe is declaring a una reportera del diario The Philadelphia Investigator that, although it is part of the group of young adolescents who will be living in the shelters for 70 years to come, he never took the lead.
However, at the time he was imprisoned there was no application to commemorate his sentence, even in the 1970s he had a real option when it came to the penalties of Pennsylvania.
In 2012, the Supreme Court of the United States determined that the automatic sentences of the perpetual path his unconstitutional son for the juvenile delinquents. Prohibition of probes, Pennsylvania is not applying the retroactive form case. Another fall of 2016 ordered the state that it hicieran.
There have been more than 500 Pennsylvania outlaws for years, with the possibility of applying conditional abridgment.
In the face of internal scandals, Ligon is willing to pay to “monitor all time”.
“I like to be free”, assured Joe at the time, but with conditional freedom have the opportunity to see the time of coming. There is no way to lose the city without permission ”and so,“ it is part of the freedom for me ”.
Despite failing to make the Supreme Court decision on any type of program, Joe Ligon wanted to condemn 35 years of imprisonment for life in 2017.
Su abogado, Bradley Bridge, comenzó entonces a wettige battle for his client to be able to make free money, even if it is finalized in 2020.
In the Federal Tribunal, Bridge argued that the maximum mandatory sentence requirement perpetuated by its client was unconstitutional.
The Officer of the District of Philadelphia has studied the case and case of agreement and, on November 13, 2020, Anita B. Brody, District Judge for the District of Este of Pennsylvania, ordered that Ligon flyviera to be held or to be released there. of 90 days.
The 90 days expired el pasado jueves 11 de februero. This day, Joseph Ligon left the prison to be seen for the first time in 63 years. “I’m thinking of all the high-end editions,” Joe said when he saw the city. ” Everything is new to me. It never existed“.
Since then, a social reorganization organization has been meeting in Ligon to create a living space where it will live.
Ligon dijo sentirse feliz al ser entrevistado por el diario The Philadelphia Investigator and that the only thing that hubiera likes is that his father and mother hubieran were there for free.
