TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Brittany Sims on Dec 12, 2014

The U.S. Supreme Court today said it would decide whether its 2012 decision prohibiting mandatory sentences of life without parole for juvenile murderers under the age of 18 at the time of their crimes is retroactive. After turning away a number of cases raising the retroactivity question since its decision in Miller v. Alabama, the justices agreed to hear arguments by George Toca, who was 17 in 1984 when he accidently shot his best friend during a botched armed robbery. The National Law Journal has more (sub. req.).