Corey B. Johnson v. State of Florida

Supreme Court of Florida ____________ No. SC2024-0380 ____________ COREY B. JOHNSON, Petitioner, vs. STATE OF FLORIDA, Respondent. July 16, 2026 FRANCIS, J. Does a trial court violate a juvenile’s Eighth Amendment right against cruel and unusual punishment when it sentences him to two concurrent life terms for attempted murder, to run consecutively to a life sentence for murder? The Fourth District Court of Appeal said no in Johnson v. State,

384 So. 3d 213

(Fla. 4th DCA 2024), certifying conflict between its decision and that of the Second District Court of Appeal in Mack v. State,

313 So. 3d…