Bassett v. Arizona

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603 U. S. ____

(2024) 1 SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES LONNIE ALLEN BASSETT v. ARIZONA ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF ARIZONA No. 23–830. Decided July 2, 2024 The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied. JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting from the denial of certio- rari. “[M]andatory life-without-parole sentences for juveniles violate the Eighth Amendment.” Miller v. Alabama,

567 U. S. 460, 470

(2012). Sentencing courts therefore must have “discretion to impose a lesser punishment”…