State of Minnesota v. Mahdi Hassan Ali

The court remands Mahdi’s case for a hearing to comply with the requirements of Miller v. Alabama, — U.S. -, 132 S.Ct. 2455, 183 L.Ed.2d 407 (2012), for the judge or a jury to consider whether a life sentence with the possibility of release after 30 years is a more appropriate sentence than the mandatory life sentence without the possibility of release (LWÓR), which he is now serving. The case law on which the court relies to justify its decision is inapposite. In my view, the appropriate *262remedy is to sever the heinous-crimes statute as it relates to juveniles and revive the most recent…