Court upholds life sentence in South Florida middle school slaying

An appeals court has upheld the life prison sentence imposed a second time on a Miami-Dade man convicted of killing his middle school classmate when both were just 14 years old.

The Third District Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday a Miami judge was correct in sentencing Michael Hernandez to life behind bars for the February 2004 stabbing death of Jaime Gough at Southwood Middle School.

Hernandez got a second sentencing hearing in 2016 because of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that juveniles could not get mandatory life sentences.

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