Kelley v. Gordon

|, This is an appeal from the Lee County Circuit Court’s order granting appellee Ulonzo Gordon relief in his habeas-corpus proceeding upon finding that the holding of Miller v. Alabama, — U.S. -, 132 S.Ct. 2455, 183 L.Ed.2d 407 (2012), which prohibited mandatory sentences of life without the possibility of parole for juvenile offenders, applies retroactively. On appeal, Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction (the State), argues that the circuit court erred by ruling that Miller applies retroactively and that the circuit court’s equal-protection/due-process ruling was…