State v. Young

JACKSON, Justice.

In this case we consider whether the Superior Court, Buncombe County correctly ordered that defendant,' who was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for a murder he committed at age seventeen, must be resentenced as a result of the decision in Miller v. Alabama, _ U.S. _, 132 S. Ct. 2455 (2012). Because we conclude that defendant’s sentence is prohibited by Miller, we affirm.

On 3 May 1999, following a capital trial, a jury found defendant guilty of first-degree murder pursuant to the felony murder rule based on attempted armed robbery and “sale of…