Court to look again at juvenile life sentences

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Scotus Blog: Court to look again at juvenile life sentences

By Lyle Denniston on Dec 12, 2014 at 3:49 pm

 

After passing up the issue several times, the Supreme Court agreed today to consider whether its 2012 decision in Miller v. Alabama, limiting sentences of life without parole for minors who commit murder, applies retroactively — that is, to inmates whose conviction had become final before the ruling was issued. However, in taking on that issue, the Court also added a second question that might keep it from deciding the first one. The new case, Toca v. Louisiana, was one of four cases the Court accepted for review; the cases are likely to be argued in late March or early April.