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change of state law that went evenfurther — allowing more than 200prisoners, including those sentenced asjuveniles to more than 20 years, toapply for release. Massey’s case was thefirst to be heard by the state Indetermi­nate Sentence Review Board.

On Feb. 16, he walked out of theMonroe Correctional Complex to aworld he had never seen as an adult.

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It was a mandatory sentence foraggravated murder — one that in 2012was called into question by the U.S.Supreme Court. Mandatory life sen­tences, the justices ruled in Miller v.Alabama, constituted cruel and unusualpunishment for juveniles, ignoring their“immaturity, impetuosity, and failureto appreciate risks and consequences.”

An earthquake in the realm of juve­nile justice, the ruling prompted a

By NINA SHAPIROSeattle Times staff reporter

On his first night of freedom, afternearly 30 years in prison, Barry Masseywent to Wal­Mart.

He had heard about its vastness, itsarray of choices, its round­the­clockhours. He walked the aisles, marveling,but wanted more time to carefully con­sider.

A few days later, he knew what tobuy: a bike. He took it out to the Wal­Mart parking lot, and rode — fast.

“Best thing ever,” he recalled. “I feltliterally like a kid again.”

That’s what he was — a kid — whenhe went to prison for a robbery­turned­murder in which he participated at age13. Tried as an adult, he was the young­est person in the country, at 14, sen­tenced to life without parole.

By MIKE LINDBLOMSeattle Times transportation reporter

The arrival of Link light rail at theUniversity of Washington is guaran­teed to take at least one car off theroad.

Sue Morgan drives from southBeacon Hill very early to hunt for freecurbside parking on the back streetsnorth of campus, then walks to lowerRoosevelt Way or Red Square, whereshe maintains websites for the UWInformation School.

Shetrieda localbus throughtheCentralDistrict, thenacrowdedtrain­to­bus transferunderdowntown,butthose tripscould take1½hours.

Starting next Saturday when alight­rail station opens at the univer­

sity, Morgan can walk onto a trainand take a 30­minute, one­seat trip. “Iwould totally ride from Othello Sta­tion,” she says.

Take her new option, multiply it bythousands, and the result is a newmindset about crossing the grid­locked city.

UW Station and Capitol Hill Sta­tion, also opening next weekend,along with the Angle Lake park­and­ride station to open in SeaTac thisfall, together are projected to add45,000 weekday passengers by 2021,for a total of 80,000 in a 21­milesystem.

This new destination station — siteof the university, UW Medical Center,

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BARRY MASSEY was imprisoned forhis role in a store owner’s 1987murder. But after the U.S. SupremeCourt ruled life sentences forjuveniles were unconstitutional, he’slearning to live outside prison walls.

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Daylight­saving timestartedat 2 a.m.Sunday.

Barry Masseysits with hiswife, Rhonda,after nearlythree decades inprison. Theyoungest per­son in the U.S.sentenced to lifewithout parole,Massey says,“I’m not himanymore.”

By MICHAEL BARBARO,ASHLEY PARKERAND TRIP GABRIELThe New York Times

In foreboding conversa­tions across the politicalworld this past year, a bi­partisan chorus warnedthat the 2016 presidentialcampaign was teetering onthe edge of violence.

The anger from both

sides was so raw, they con­cluded — from supportersof Donald Trump who areterrified they are losingtheir country and fromprotesters who fear he isleading the nation down adark road of hate — that adreaded moment was start­ing to look inevitable.

“I don’t see where thatanger goes,” historianHeather Cox Richardson

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