In December, Cyntoia Brown’s lawyers filed an official appeal to commute her life sentence for first-degree murder. Well, the state of Tennessee has officially responded by saying it WAS constitutional to imprison her after she killed the man who solicited her as a teenage prostitute.
The legal response was filed Wednesday in the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. It states that Tennessee didn’t contradict the U.S. Supreme Court precedent on cruel and unusual punishment.
You guys may remember the 29-year-old’s case from when it made headlines again last year. Advocates say she was a sex trafficking victim. She’s been in prison since 2004 for murdering a 43-year-old man when she was 16 years old.
She won’t be eligible for parole until she is 67.
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