Legal Opinion
Jackson v. Norris
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided April 25, 2013No. 09-145PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOSEPHINE LINKER HART, Justice.
11This court affirmed Kuntrell Jackson’s capital-murder and aggravated-robbery convictions and his sentence of life imprisonment without parole. Jackson v. State, 359 Ark. 87, 194 S.W.3d 757 (2004). This court subsequently affirmed the Jefferson County Circuit Court’s denial of Jackson’s petition for writ of habeas corpus, concluding that even though he was only fourteen years old at the time he committed the crimes, Jackson’s mandatory sentence of life imprisonment without parole did not violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Miller v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 2012
- Thompson v. OklahomaSupreme Court of the United States · 1988
- Yates v. AikenSupreme Court of the United States · 1988
- Hobbs v. JonesSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2012
- Jackson v. NorrisSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2011
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3Cited by38 opinions
- Commonwealth v. CunninghamSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2013
- Hobbs v. GordonSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2014
- People of Michigan v. Raymond Curtis CarpMichigan Supreme Court · 2014
- State v. JamesSupreme Court of North Carolina · 2018
- Harris v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2018
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