State v. Valencia

OPINION

ESPINOSA, Judge:

¶ 1 Gregory Valencia Jr. and Joey Healer seek review of trial court orders denying their respective petitions for post-conviction relief, in which they argued Miller v. Alabama, - U.S. -, 132 S.Ct. 2455, 183 L.Ed.2d 407 (2012), constitutes a significant change in the law applicable to their natural-life prison sentences. Because Miller, as clarified by the United States Supreme Court in Montgomery v. Louisiana, — U.S. -, -, 136 S.Ct. 718, 734, 193 L.Ed.2d 599 (2016), “bar[s] life without parole” for all juvenile offenders except those “whose crimes reflect permanent…