Dortch v. State

On this appeal from resentencing required in the wake of Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48, 180 S.Ct. 2011, 176 L.Ed.2d 825 (2010), Kelvin T. Dortch challenges his new sentences: combined prison terms of 80 years, imposed for non-homicide offenses he committed as a fourteen-year-old. He raises several constitutional questions, none of which we find necessary to reach, because we agree with his contention that ordering his new sentences to run consecutively to a sentence imposed in another case, so that his sentences exceeded 100 years’ imprisonment in the aggregate, violated a binding pretrial…