KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An attorney for a man serving a life sentence for his role in a 1988 explosion that killed six Kansas City firefighters has asked a federal judge to immediately release him.
The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/2dtVb21 ) reports that Cynthia Short argues in motions on Bryan Sheppard’s behalf that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in recent years that mandatory life-without-parole sentences of juveniles were unconstitutional. Now 45, Sheppard was 17 ...