EASTON, Pa. – A Northampton County judge is suggesting the Superior Court of Pennsylvania deny a man’s appeal of his re-sentencing for a 2006 Easton gangland homicide that he committed when he was 14 years old.
Back in 2006, then 14-year-old Qu’eed Batts killed 16-year-old Clarence Edwards and injured an 18-year-old man in a shooting in Easton, according to authorities. Batts was convicted a year later and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Then in 2023 Batts was re-sentenced to 40 years to life in prison with the possibility of parole. That re-sentencing in December 2023 followed a series of court rulings about sentencing guidelines for juvenile killers…