Officers stand outside the Supreme Court in Washington on January 22. Susan Walsh / AP The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday in Montgomery v. Alabama that its ban on mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juvenile offenders also applied retroactively, making more than 2,000 inmates nationwide eligible for resentencing or the possibility of eventual freedom.
A Retroactive Break For Juvenile Offenders
Matt Ford, The Atlantic: Politics
Tue, 01/26/2016 - 4:12am
Topics: january susan walsh ap the u.s supreme henry montgomery east baton rouge ku klux klan louisiana&rsquo terrance graham florida ldquo;the state eighth justice clarence thomas evan miller kuntrell jackson arkansas justice elena kagan warren garrett epps for ldquo;because miller justice antonin scalia justices clarence thomas samuel alito miller&rsquo miller,&rdquo godfather supreme court the u.s supreme montgomery justice anthony kennedy louisiana louisiana supreme kennedy graham amendment miller jackson montgomery&rsquo constitution scalia retroactive juvenile offenders substantive sentences majority rules time wrote defendants procedural sentence rule life crime life-without-parole case parole system years penalty death alabama states ruled federal future cases applied apply mandatory question crimes convicted prison homicide potential denied criminal-justice inmates roper ban rulings conviction class criminal complained monday stand ruling child ldquo;this maturity resentencing based lost ldquo;watershed&rdquo ongoing american procedure impossible irreparable meant opportunity citing show reflect limit nationwide final inmate hope feature rehabilitation decision trial society provide punishments handed can’t transient armed culpability flight immaturity noting relief disagreed argues argued jury committed review racial teague age adult simply presumptively entire sentencing routes
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