The goal concerns issues related to sentencing for individuals under 18 years of age, particularly when the sentence for an adult would have corresponded to life imprisonment, writes the Supreme Court.
The boy was sentenced in August this year to ten years and nine months in prison by the Svea Court of Appeal for the murder of a man who was shot dead with a large number of shots in Solna last spring. The sentence also took into account that he was previously convicted of attempted murder of two people shortly before the murder.
The boy was only 16 years old at the time of the crimes, and for someone so young to be sentenced to such a long prison sentence is very unusual. However, it has become more common as more and more young people are convicted of very serious crimes – often with gang connections – and where the sentence for an adult would have been life imprisonment.
The courts, however, do not seem to agree on how sentences should be determined in these cases, according to the teenager's lawyer Kristofer Stahre, who believed that the Supreme Court should comment on the matter. The Supreme Court agrees and is now granting leave to appeal.
