94: Irreparably Corrupt (Brett Jones - Jones v. Mississippi)

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🗓️ 25 April 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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On August 9, 2004, Brett Jones stabbed his 68-year-old grandfather Bertis Jones to death in Shannon, Mississippi, just 3 weeks after he turned 15. After multiple appeals, the U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding his case was recently announced, on April 22, 2021, altering the once-forward trajectory of juvenile justice reform.

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1:17.7	Episode 94
1:35.2	Irreparably corrupt. War baby here with another episode of murderous minors.
1:41.1	In past episodes we've talked about the Supreme Court's influence on juvenile justice reform
1:49.2	and there's been a new development. On April 22nd 2021, associate justice Brett
1:57.2	Kavanaugh's opinion in Jones v Mississippi was released. Reflecting the high court six to three
2:03.7	decision that a judge does not have to specifically find that a juvenile murderer is permanently
2:09.7	incorrigible or irreparably corrupt and unable to be rehabilitated in order to sentence them to
2:16.2	life without parole. The decision does not change any of their previous decisions but it does not
2:22.8	advance the trajectory of the juvenile justice reform initiative either with the dissent written by
2:29.1	justice Sonia Sotomayor beginning quote, today the court guts Miller v. Alabama and Montgomery v.
2:37.4	Louisiana. On this episode of murderous minors we look at the case of Brett Jones who escaped
2:44.3	to dysfunctional home only to have his new life quickly end in violent murder. Please be advised
2:51.2	that there are mentions of domestic violence, child abuse and self-harm in addition to violent
2:58.0	murder. Jones v. Mississippi was the culmination of appeals that began over 15 years ago,
3:06.2	stemming from the murder conviction of then 15-year-old Brett Jones in Lee County, Mississippi.
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