Legal Opinion
State v. Ramos
Washington Supreme Court
Decided January 12, 2017No. 92454-6PublishedCited by 103 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
[As amended by order of the Supreme Court February 22, 2017.]
Yu, J.
¶ 1 When a juvenile offender is sentenced in adult court, youth matters on a constitutional level. Even for homicide offenses, “mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juveniles violate the Eighth Amendment.” Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460, 470, 132 S. Ct. 2455, 183 L. Ed. 2d 407 (2012) (citing U.S. Const, amend. VIII). Therefore, where a convicted juvenile offender faces a possible life-without-parole sentence, the sentencing court must conduct an individualized hearing and “take into account how children are different,…
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