A North Carolina man convicted in the death of NBA star Chris Paul's grandfather has become eligible for parole after a recent court ruling.
Forsyth County Superior Court Judge David Hall granted a motion Thursday to resentence 29-year-old
to life with the possibility of parole.
That means he will be eligible for parole in 12 years.
According to the Winston-Salem Journal, prosecutors opposed the resentencing.
Banner was 16 when a jury convicted him in 2004 of first-degree murder in the death of Paul's grandfather, Nathaniel Jones.
Banner was sentenced to life without parole, as was his brother.
In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that judges cannot give mandatory life sentences to juveniles. In 2016, the court decided that ruling would be applied retroactively.
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