Beach v. State

May 5 2015 OP 14-0685 Case Number: OP 14-0685 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MONTANA

2015 MT 118

_________________ BARRY ALLAN BEACH, Petitioner, OPINION v. AND ORDER STATE OF MONTANA, Respondent. _________________ ¶1 Barry Allan Beach petitions for a writ of habeas corpus, arguing that his sentence of one hundred years of imprisonment without the possibility of parole is unconstitutional under Miller v. Alabama,

567 U.S. ___,

132 S. Ct. 2455

(2012). The dispositive issue is whether Miller’s rule requiring a sentencing judge to consider a juvenile1 offender’s age when sentencing that…