Deal or No Deal: High Court Ponders 105-Year Sentence Challenge

A sextuple bank robber serving a whopping 105-year sentence has a Hail Mary petition pending before the U.S. Supreme Court today that seeks to capitalize on the spirit of a bipartisan criminal justice law that undoes a tough-on-crime 1990s opinion in the bank robber’s case by the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

The First Step Act signed into law by President Donald Trump reverses the rule Scalia announced in Thomas Lee Deal’s case, and yet Deal may still have to serve his century-long sentence.

Deal’s petition for rehearing spotlights the plight of convicted defendants who might not benefit from this reform ...