Kids Behind Bars: Life or Parole
Season 1 • Episode 5: Brandon • Watch with subtitles
Episode 5: Brandon
June 4, 2019 • 44 min
On August 21, 2001, a group of teens, including 15-year-old Brandon, kidnapped and raped Melissa, a 21-year-old college student in Youngstown, Ohio. Brandon was tried as an adult and sentenced to 141 years in prison without parole. Seventeen years later the Ohio Supreme Court agreed that Brandon's sentence is the equivalent of life without parole and therefore unconstitutional. He has been granted the opportunity for a new sentence.
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