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John Cramsey talks to the media after he pleaded guilty to two weapon possession charges in state Superior Court Monday, July 31, 2017, in Jersey City, N.J. Cramsey, arrested on the New Jersey side of the Holland Tunnel in June 2016 with a vehicle full of weapons on a self-described mission to rescue a teenager from a drug den, pleaded guilty Monday to weapons charges, but said he would continue his battle against the scourge of drug addiction. (Andrew Maclean/NJ Advance Media via AP)
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Defense attorney James Lisa, right, talks with the press after his client, John Cramsey left, pleaded guilty to two weapon possession charges in state Superior Court on Monday, July 31, 2017, in Jersey City, N.J. Cramsey, arrested on the New Jersey side of the Holland Tunnel in June 2016 with a vehicle full of weapons on a self-described mission to rescue a teenager from a drug den, pleaded guilty Monday to weapons charges, but said he would continue his battle against the scourge of drug addiction.(Andrew Maclean/NJ Advance Media via AP)
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This photo provided by the Dakota County Sheriff's Office in Hastings, Minn., shows Lucifer Nguyen, an armed robbery suspect who is suspected of killing a financial adviser inside a Minnesota business Saturday, July 29, 2017. The Mendota Heights Police Department confirmed Monday, July 31 that authorities haven't yet found Nguyen. (Dakota County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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In this July 14, 2010, file photo, gavels and law books are shown in the office of California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald George at his office in San Francisco, Calif. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, file) **FILE**
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This undated photo provided by the Delaware Department of Justice shows Donald Lee Torres, who was 14 when he set a fire in 1989 that killed a man, his wife and their two young children at a home in Middletown, Del. Torres was initially sentenced to life without parole, but he was resentenced in 2014 to 110 years in prison, making him eligible for a sentence review and possible parole in 2019. (Delaware Department of Justice via AP)
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This undated photo provided by the Delaware Department of Justice shows Michael Jones, who was indicted in 2001 on three counts of first-degree murder committed in 1999, when he was 17, but he was not tried until 2005, when he was 22. The jury recommended the death penalty, but before Jones could be sentenced, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment was unconstitutional for juvenile offenders. Jones was resentenced in 2014 to life without parole for the drug-related killings of Cedric Reinford and Maneeka Plant, the granddaughter of two former state representatives. At the time of the killings, Jones was the subject of a separate murder warrant in Connecticut. (Delaware Department of Justice via AP)
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Duane "Dog" Chapman, center, joins the family of Christian Rodgers and their lawyers Monday, July 31, 2017, as they announce a wrongful death lawsuit that claims New Jersey's new bail reform measures are to blame for Rodgers' shooting death in April 2017, in Trenton, N.J. Chapman, the former star of the "Dog the Bounty Hunter" television show, has been an outspoken critic of the reforms, which proponents say are meant to keep defendants from being stuck in jail mainly because they can't afford bail. Defendants named in the suit include Gov. Chris Christie, who has championed the reforms, and state Attorney General Christopher Porrino. (AP Photo/Bruce Shipkowski)
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“Joe Arpaio is in this for the long haul, and he will continue his fight to vindicate himself, to prove his innocence and to protect the public,” the former sheriff's defense attorney said in a statement.
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This undated photo made available by the Walker County, Ala., Sheriff's Office, shows Brady Andrew Kilpatrick. A manhunt is underway for Kilpatrick, who escaped with 11 other inmates from the Walter County jail on Sunday, July 30, 2017. All but Kilpatrick have been recaptured. (Walter County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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This Oct. 30, 2016, photo provided by the Delaware Department of Justice shows Charles Blizzard, who was sentenced by a Delaware judge in June 2017 to a year of probation after pleading guilty to offensive touching. Blizzard, now 52, was released from prison in 2014, one of more than a dozen convicted killers in Delaware who were resentenced after initially being given life in prison for crimes committed as juveniles. He was given a life sentence for the fatal beating of a man in 1982, when Blizzard was 17 years old. (Delaware Department of Justice via AP)
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FILE - In this Thursday, July 6, 2017, file photo, John Cramsey, who was pulled over outside the Holland Tunnel and found to be carrying a cache of guns last year and charged, listens during a hearing at the Hudson County Courthouse in Jersey City, N.J. Cramsey, who told police he was heading to the city to rescue a teenage girl from a drug den pleaded guilty on Monday, July 31, to weapons charges. (Ed Murray/NJ Advance Media via AP, Pool, File)
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This undated photo provided by the Montana Department Corrections shows Steven Wayne Keefe. U.S. Supreme Court decisions prohibiting mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juvenile offenders have prompted requests for resentencing from Keefe and one other Montana inmate. Keefe was convicted of three counts of deliberate homicide during a home invasion near Great Falls in October 1985, when he was 17. (Montana Department Corrections via AP)
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FILE - In this June 8, 2007 file photo, Torey Adamcik is taken out of a courtroom in handcuffs after being convicted of murder and conspiracy to commit murder at the Bannock County Courthouse in Pocatello, Idaho. On Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011, the Idaho Supreme Court upheld Adamcik's murder conviction for killing his classmate and the life sentence that went with it. Adamcik and Brian Draper were 16 when they videotaped themselves planning the murder of 17-year-old Cassie Jo Stoddart. She was stabbed to death in 2006. (Joe Kline/The Idaho State Journal via AP)
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FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 24, 2007 file photo, Brian Draper reads a statement to the court during his sentencing in Pocatello, Idaho. Draper and Torey Adamcik, who were convicted of killing a high school classmate in eastern Idaho, have been sentenced to life in prison without parole. Draper and Adamcik were 16 when they videotaped themselves planning the murder of 17-year-old Cassie Jo Stoddart. She was stabbed to death in 2006. (Doug Lindley/The Idaho State Journal via AP)
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FILE - In this Tuesday Dec. 7, 2010 file photo, convicted murderer Sarah Johnson listens to her attorney, Christopher Simms, during her court hearing in Twin Falls, Idaho, to have her 2005 conviction for murdering her parents overturned. Simms says Johnson was unfairly convicted of killing her parents in 2003, at the age of 16, because police investigators failed to consider other suspects and a previous defense attorney who was unprepared. (Ashley Smith/The Times-News via AP)
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FILE - In this June 1, 2015 file photo, Nevada Assembly speaker John Hambrick attends a session of the Nevada Legislature in Carson City. Hambrick, a Republican from Las Vegas, authored a state law passed in 2015 that provided parole eligibility to inmates who were juveniles at the time of their crimes, had already served 20 years in prison, and were not convicted of multiple murders. (AP Photo/Lance Iversen, File)
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This undated photo provided by the Nevada Department of Corrections in 2017 shows Michael Domingues, 40, who is serving life without parole at Southern Desert Correctional Center outside Las Vegas. Domingues was 16 years old when he strangled his 24-year-old neighbor in Las Vegas and stabbed her 4-year-old son to death in October 1993. He was 17 when he was convicted of double murder and sentenced to be executed. His sentence was converted in 2010 to life without parole. Domingues and his lawyer, Lisa Rasmussen, want the Nevada Supreme Court to rule him constitutionally entitled to a new sentencing hearing at which he could argue that juvenile offenders are too neurologically and psychologically immature to face a lifetime behind bars. A ruling is pending. (Nevada Department of Corrections via AP)
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In this Oct. 15, 2014 photo provided by the Mississippi Department of Corrections shows Luke Woodham, held at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Miss. He was convicted of three counts of murder in the stabbing death of his mother and the shooting deaths of two fellow students at Pearl High School in October 1997. Woodham was 16 at the time of the attack, which wounded seven others. Woodham, now 36, is among the juvenile lifers waiting to be resentenced. (Mississippi Department of Corrections via AP)
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This undated photo released by the Mississippi Department of Corrections shows convicted murderer Steven McGilberry. McGilberry was originally sentenced to death in the 1994 bludgeoning deaths of four relatives in their home in the coastal town of St. Martin when he was 16. His sentence was changed to life without parole after the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed the death penalty for juveniles. After a hearing in 2016, a judge again sentenced McGilberry to life without parole, and that decision is on appeal to the state Supreme Court. (Mississippi Department of Corrections via AP)
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FILE - In this Oct. 2, 1997, file photo, Luke Woodham, 16, exits the city's courtroom in Pearl, Miss. He was convicted of three counts of murder in the stabbing death of his mother and the shooting deaths of two fellow students at Pearl High School. Woodham, now 36, is a juvenile lifer waiting to be resentenced. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
