Edel Gonzalez – Post-Conviction Justice Project

PCJP Victory: Juvenile Offender Serving Life Released From Prison

The first juvenile offender resentenced under the California Fair Sentencing for Youth Act was released from prison this week thanks to the work of law students with USC Gould’s Post-Conviction Justice Project (PCJP).

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March 24, 2015

ABC7: California man convicted at 16 resentenced under new law

In 2013, at age 38, PCJP Edel Gonzalez was considered for (and eventually granted) parole as the first inmate under a new law to have his life sentence reduced for a crime he committed as a juvenile. Governor Jerry Brown signed the California law that allows inmates similar to Gonzalez,…

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December 18, 2013