Commonwealth v. Olds
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION BY OLSON, J.:
In 1980, Appellant, Ricky L. Olds, was convicted of second-degree murder and subsequently sentenced to a mandatory term of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole ("LWOP"). During the incident in question, Appellant's co-conspirator shot and fatally wounded a patron while robbing a tobacco store. At that time, Appellant was 14 years old. After the Supreme Court of the United States' decisions in Miller v. Alabama , 567 U.S. 460 , 132 S.Ct. 2455 , 183 L.Ed.2d 407 (2012) 1 and Montgomery v. Louisiana , --- U.S. ----, 136 S.Ct. 718 , 193 L.Ed.2d 599 (2016), 2…
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