Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Lehman

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided January 4, 2019No. 1556 MDA 2017PublishedCited by 25 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION BY OLSON, J.:

More than 28 years ago, the trial court sentenced Appellant, Michael A. Lehman, to the then-mandatory term of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for a murder committed when he was 14 years old. On April 4, 2017, he was resentenced to 30 years to life imprisonment in light of intervening decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States. See Miller v. Alabama , 567 U.S. 460 , 132 S.Ct. 2455 , 183 L.Ed.2d 407 (2012) ; see also Montgomery v. Louisiana , --- U.S. ----, 136 S.Ct. 718 , 193 L.Ed.2d 599 (2016). In *1281 addition, the trial court ordered him to pay…

2Cases cited20 opinions

  1. Miller v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 2012
  2. Montgomery v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 2016
  3. United States v. GoodwinSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
  4. Commonwealth v. Treiber, S., ApltSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2015
  5. Commonwealth v. CunninghamSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2013

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3Cited by25 opinions

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