Brandon Moore's attorney Rachel Bloomekatz told the Ohio Supreme Court that his 112-year sentence for kidnapping, robbery, and gang rape violates a US Supreme Court decision that said juveniles cannot be imprisoned for life for crimes other than murder.
"What a judge cannot do is decide that a juvenile non-homicide offender is never fit to re-enter society at the outset. And he can't do that by giving a sentence that's so long that it'll ensure the juvenile dies in prison."
But assistant Mahoning County prosecutor Ralph Rivera said that ruling related to a juvenile's conviction of just one crime, not of many.
"The United States Supreme Court was strictly and only speaking to a life sentence, a direct life sentence - not an aggregate sentence."
It's thought a ruling in this case would affect only one other Ohio inmate sentenced as a juvenile.
