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Juvenile Sentencing Case at Supreme Court

Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in two cases on whether a life without the possibility of parole sentence for a juvenile homicide offender violates the Eighth Amendment's cruel and unusual punishment prohibition. See SCOTUSblog's case pages for the two cases, Miller v. Alabama and Jackson v. Hobbs. These  pages include all of the briefs and the lower court opinion. See also this video commentary from Moritz College of Law Professor and sentencing expert Doug Berman. Berman and a group of his Moritz students submitted a brief as amici curiae in support of 14-year old juveniles-petitioners, Kuntrell Jackson and Evan Miller.