Kendall Young v. State

Kendall Young, a juvenile offender, challenges the constitutionality of the ten-year mandatory minimum provision of a ten-year prison sentence that he received for committing the crime of robbery with a firearm, a first-degree felony punishable by up to life imprisonment. 1 Young does not contend that a ten-year prison sentence by itself is unconstitutional, 2 but asserts that pursuant to the United States Supreme Court opinions in Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460, 132 S.Ct. 2455, 183 L.Ed.2d 407 (2012), and Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48, 130 S.Ct. 2011, 176 L.Ed.2d 825 (2010), the imposition…