Naovarath v. State

OPINION

By the Court,

Springer, J.:

We have before us a thirteen-year-old seventh grader who stands convicted of an unspecified degree of murder by reason of his plea of guilty to an amended information charging “murder.” Rejecting a pre-sentence recommendation of life with possibility of parole, the trial court sentenced appellant Naovarath to imprisonment for the rest of his life without possibility of parole.

Before proceeding we pause first to contemplate the meaning of a sentence “without possibility of parole,” especially as it bears *526upon a seventh grader. All but the deadliest and most…