Legal Opinion
People v. Lucero
Colorado Court of Appeals
Decided April 11, 2013No. Court of Appeals No. 11CA2030PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by JUDGE MILLER
*468¶ 1 Defendant, Guy V. Lucero, Jr., appeals the trial court's order denying his Crim. P. 35(b) postconviction motion seeking reduction of his aggregate eighty-four-year sentence for nonhomicide crimes he committed as a juvenile. He asserts that this sentence violates the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause of the federal constitution's Eighth Amendment and article II, section 20 of the Colorado Constitution, citing Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48, 130 S.Ct. 2011, 176 L.Ed.2d 825 (2010). The Supreme Court held in Graham that juveniles may not be sentenced to life without…
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