Petition of the day
By John Ehrett
on Nov 12, 2015
The petition of the day is:
15-276
Issue: Whether the Kansas Supreme Court misinterpreted and improperly expanded the Supreme Court’s decisions in Graham v. Florida and Miller v. Alabama when it extended those decisions to a sentence that does not involve life imprisonment, holding that the Eighth Amendment categorically bars a sentence of mandatory lifetime postrelease supervision (i.e., non-incarceration) for juveniles convicted of serious sex offenses.
Posted in Cases in the Pipeline
Recommended Citation:
John Ehrett,
Petition of the day,
SCOTUSblog (Nov. 12, 2015, 12:00 AM),
https://www.scotusblog.com/2015/11/petition-of-the-day-876/