Inmate who killed as a juvenile gets parole eligibility
Published 5:02 pm Wednesday, June 21, 2017
BATON ROUGE — A 71-year-old man who killed a sheriff’s deputy while playing hooky as a juvenile will get parole consideration.
District Judge Richard D. Anderson resentenced Henry Montgomery in a Baton Rouge courtroom Wednesday.
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Montgomery had been serving a life-without-parole sentence and was the petitioner in a case that had gone before the U.S. Supreme Court. The high court ruled in Montgomery’s favor in January 2016, finding that the court’s 2012 ruling against automatic juvenile life-without-parole sentences should be applied retroactively.
Because of the court’s decision, the Louisiana Legislature this month changed the law to give some inmates who committed murder as teenagers a chance for parole after 25 years.
Montgomery fatally shot Deputy Charles Hurt in a Baton Rouge park in 1963. Anderson said Montgomery has been a “model prisoner” since then.
