HB 1540 - DIGEST |
Allows a person, convicted of one or more crimes committed before his or her eighteenth birthday, to petition the indeterminate sentence review board for early release from sentences for those offenses. |
Requires a person, convicted of aggravated first degree murder for an offense committed before his or her eighteenth birthday, to be sentenced to a range of total confinement with a maximum term and a minimum term. |
Prohibits the maximum term from exceeding a life sentence, and the minimum term from exceeding twenty-five years. Sentences imposed under this act must be served concurrently with sentences imposed for any other current offenses. |
Requires the court to take into account progress towards rehabilitation demonstrated by the youth following the commission of his or her crime. |
Requires a return to sentencing court if a person, sentenced before the effective date of this act, is still incarcerated as of that effective date for a conviction of aggravated murder committed before his or her eighteenth birthday. |