In 1995, Julie Anderson’s 15-year-old son Eric was tried as an adult and found guilty of double homicide after he and a friend stole a gun from a police officer’s house. Watch the rest of We Are Witnesses: Chicago here:    • Former Jail Warden Dr. Nneka Jones Ta...  . Initially, Eric was sentenced to life in prison without parole. For 20 years, Eric’s family — including his father, who was a Chicago Police Department officer for 28 years — would drive hundreds of miles to Menard Correctional Center to visit. In 2017, Eric was resentenced thanks to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that banned mandatory life sentences for people who committed crimes as juveniles. In this We Are Witnesses film, Anderson talks about the agony of having an incarcerated child and coming to terms with the shame and guilt she felt for what had happened, and the empathy she felt for the victims’ families. Eric has served more than 23 years in prison. He is expected to be released in 2025.

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