Petition of the day
By Aurora Barnes
on Jan 5, 2018

SCOTUS turtles
The petition of the day is:
17-560
Issue: Whether the Eighth Amendment is satisfied when, in a non-mandatory sentencing regime, a juvenile convicted of murder had the opportunity to present evidence of “youth and its attendant characteristics,” and the sentencing court could and did consider youth, and subsequently made a retrospective finding in light of Miller v. Alabama, and Montgomery v. Louisiana, that the juvenile’s crime did not reflect “transient immaturity,” but was instead one of the “rare” cases justifying a fixed life sentence.
Posted in Cases in the Pipeline
Cases: Idaho v. Windom
Recommended Citation:
Aurora Barnes,
Petition of the day,
SCOTUSblog (Jan. 5, 2018, 12:00 AM),
https://www.scotusblog.com/2018/01/petition-of-the-day-1296/