After being sentenced to life without parole, a man convicted of a Cranberry Township murder in 1984 may soon get his day before the parole board.

County court Judge William Robinson in a resentencing hearing Monday changed the sentence of Raymond Williams, who was convicted of murder at age 17 and is now 55, to 30 years to life in prison, and recommended the state parole board “pay immediate attention” to Williams' case.

Williams' resentencing, coming after he has served 37 years in prison, comes on the heels of both U.S. and Pennsylvania supreme court decisions limiting the ways in which juveniles can be sentenced to a life prison sentence with no possibility of parole.

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