Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Perez

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided September 14, 2018No. SJC 12498PublishedCited by 14 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtKafker, J.

**562 In Commonwealth v. Perez , 477 Mass. 677 , 688, 80 N.E.3d 967 (2017) ( Perez I ), we determined that the juvenile defendant, Fernando Perez, received a sentence for his nonhomicide offenses that was presumptively disproportionate under art. 26 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights in that the time he would serve prior to parole eligibility exceeded that applicable to a **563 juvenile convicted of murder. We therefore remanded the matter to the Superior *624 Court for a hearing to determine whether, in light of the factors articulated by the United States Supreme Court in Miller v.…

2Cases cited18 opinions

  1. Mathews v. EldridgeSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
  2. Miller v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 2012
  3. Roper v. SimmonsSupreme Court of the United States · 2005
  4. Graham v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 2010
  5. L.L., a juvenile v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2014

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