Petition of the day
By Aurora Barnes
on Feb 20, 2018

The petition of the day is:
17-912
Issue: Whether, when the Supreme Court held in Graham v. Florida that “[t]he Constitution prohibits the imposition of a life without parole sentence on a juvenile offender who did not commit homicide,” states can bypass that rule by sentencing a juvenile offender who did not commit homicide to a term-of-years sentence under which he will die in prison, because he will not be eligible for parole until he is 112 years old.
Posted in Cases in the Pipeline
Cases: Bostic v. Dunbar
Recommended Citation:
Aurora Barnes,
Petition of the day,
SCOTUSblog (Feb. 20, 2018, 12:00 AM),
https://www.scotusblog.com/2018/02/petition-of-the-day-1326/