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Immigrant Rights Groups Criticize Lax Sentencing in Penn. Murder Case

HeadlineJun 19, 2009

Immigrant rights groups are outraged over the sentencing of two white teenagers involved in the beating death of a Mexican immigrant in the town of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. The teenagers will serve as little as six months in jail. Last month, an all-white jury exonerated the two former high school football players of the most serious charges in connection with the fatal beating.

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