Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Olds

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided July 3, 2018No. 1772 WDA 2016PublishedCited by 34 opinions

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…

2Cases cited20 opinions

  1. Miller v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 2012
  2. Solem v. HelmSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
  3. Graham v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 2010
  4. Montgomery v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 2016
  5. Baze v. ReesSupreme Court of the United States · 2008

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3Cited by34 opinions

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  2. Commonwealth v. BlountSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2019
  3. Commonwealth v. LehmanSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2019
  4. Commonwealth v. SmithSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2019
  5. Commonwealth v. LigonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2019

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