Youthful Offender’s Mandatory Life Sentence Reduced to 30 Years

A defendant convicted of murder in aid of racketeering after carrying out a hit for his gang boss had his mandatory life sentence reduced to 30 years by a federal district judge in New York.

Andrew Ramsay was a youthful offender when he was convicted for the 1992 murders that were part of an attempt to kill a rival gang leader.

When Ramsay was convicted, he was required to be given a mandatory life sentence, but Congress has since allowed courts to grant sentence reductions in extraordinary and compelling circumstances, the opinion by Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the U.S. ...