By Elana Bildner Brown v. Precythe, No. 2:17-cv-04082-NKL, 2018 WL 4956519 (W.D. Mo. Oct. 12, 2018) Update: There’s further good news in the Missouri case challenging parole procedures for juvenile lifers: A year after they defeated a motion to dismiss, plaintiffs...
By Elana Bildner Brown v. Precythe, No. 2:17-CV-04082-NKL, 2017 WL 4980872 (W.D. Mo. Oct. 31, 2017) A quartet of juvenile lifers challenging the implementation of Missouri’s juvenile parole legislation cleared a substantial hurdle in late October, when a federal...
By Elana Bildner In June, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that “a faithful application of the holding in Miller, as clarified in Montgomery,” requires a presumption against life-without-parole sentences for juvenile offenders, which may be overcome only if the...
State Supreme Courts in New Jersey, Ohio, and Washington Confirm that Lengthy, Aggregate Term-of-Years Sentences May Violate Graham and Miller By Tessa Bialek In Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48 (2010), Miller v. Alabama, 132 S. Ct. 2455 (2012), and Montgomery v....
By Tessa Bialek On October 19, 2016, the Louisiana Supreme Court unanimously struck down a 99-year sentence for a nonhomicide offense as “the functional equivalent of life without parole” and illegal under Graham v. Florida. See State ex rel. Alden Morgan v. State,...
By John Mills A judge in Hillsborough County, Florida recently struck down Florida’s juvenile first-degree murder sentencing scheme because it violates Miller v. Alabama, a Supreme Court case decided in 2012. In Miller, the Supreme Court held that sentencers must...
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