The office of U.S. Attorney Tammy Dickinson agreed in a brief filed late Wednesday that Bryan Sheppard, who was 17 at the time of the explosion, deserves a chance to make his case before a federal judge.
Sheppard and his attorney sought the re-sentencing hearing under a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that found that mandatory sentences of life without parole for juveniles violated the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.
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