The Washington Supreme Court has denied to reconsider the 61-year sentence of a Black man who killed a person while he was a minor, despite criticism that the ruling was racially bias.
Anderson, now 45, shot two women, killing one and blinding the other, during a drug robbery in Tukwila in 1994. An accomplice also shot and killed a man at the same home.assault and robbery
He was convicted of first-degree murder in 2000 and sentenced to 61 years. He was granted a new sentencing hearing in 2018, following federal and state rulings that children must be treated differently by the justice system. But the judge gave him the same term, finding Anderson had not shown the shootings reflected"transient immaturity.
In September, the court struck down a 46-year sentence for Timothy Haag, a white man who was 17 when he are barred by the state Constitution only if their crimes"reflect youthful immaturity, impetuosity, or failure to appreciate risks and consequences."The dissenting justices said it was nonsensical that the court would find a 46-year sentence for a white 17-year-old to be an unconstitutional"de facto" life sentence, while upholding a 61-year sentence for a Black 17-year-old. Justice Mary Yu wrote it would be"willfully oblivious" to conclude race played no role.
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