Angelo Atwell v. State of Florida

Supreme Court of Florida ____________ No. SC14-193 ____________ ANGELO ATWELL, Petitioner, vs. STATE OF FLORIDA, Respondent. [May 26, 2016] PARIENTE, J. Angelo Atwell was sixteen years old when, in August 1990, he committed armed robbery and first-degree murder. Under the statute then in effect, Atwell was sentenced for the first-degree murder to a mandatory term of life imprisonment, with the possibility of parole after twenty-five years, and was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for the armed robbery. As mandated by the existing statutory scheme, Florida’s…