INDIANAPOLIS ? An attorney for an Indiana teenager who strangled his 10-year-old brother and expressed admiration for a fictional serial killer says he was mentally ill and shouldn't have been sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Defense lawyer Leanna Weissmann argued before the Indiana Supreme Court on Monday that Andrew Conley had a long history of mental illness that was never treated.
She also says a trial judge made a mistake when he let an expert who never met Conley testify the teen might be a psychopath.
Weissmann says Conley should be sentenced to 55 years, but Deputy Attorney General Henry Flores Jr. says life without parole is the correct sentence.
The Indiana Supreme Court heard the arguments on Conley's appeal in South Bend. It did not immediately make a decision.
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