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Miller v. Alabama, No. 10-9646 (U.S. Supreme Court) (567 U.S. 460; 132 S.Ct. 2455) (June 25, 2012) (Justice Kagan)

Loaded on June 25, 2012 published in Punch and Jurists June 25, 2012
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In these two consolidated cases, the Court held, by a 5-4 vote, that “the Eighth Amendment forbids a sentencing scheme that mandates life in prison without possibility of parole for juvenile offenders.” In both cases, one from Alabama and one from Arkansas, a 14-year-old was convicted of murder and sentenced ...

 

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