Travion Blount v. Harold Clarke

NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:

Travion Blount was sentenced by a Virginia state court in March 2008 to six consecutive terms of life imprisonment *457 plus 118 years' imprisonment for nonhomicide crimes that he committed when he was 15 years old. Under Virginia law, Blount was subject to a geriatric release program, under which he would have been eligible for conditional release once he turned 60 years old. See Va. Code Ann. § 53.1-40.01 .

After the Supreme Court decided Graham v. Florida , 560 U.S. 48 , 130 S.Ct. 2011 , 176 L.Ed.2d 825 (2010), which prohibited juvenile offenders convicted of nonhomicide…