McCardle v. State

In 2006, appellant Michael McCardle was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Appellant was seventeen years old at the time of the offense. In 2016, in light of the United States Supreme Court's decision in Miller v. Alabama , 567 U.S. 460, 132 S.Ct. 2455, 183 L.Ed.2d 407 (2012), appellant's sentence was vacated and his case was remanded for resentencing. In 2017, the trial court sentenced appellant to life in prison with the possibility of parole in forty years. Appellant asserts that his sentence violated the United States…