Naovarath v. State

Young, C. J.,

with whom Steffen, J., agrees, dissenting:

The district court imposed a sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of parole on a convicted murderer. The defendant, now age fifteen, was thirteen years old at the time of the crime.1 We find that the sentence was constitutional, and did not evidence an abuse of discretion by the district court. Therefore, we would affirm.

During the morning of January 1, 1987, appellant, Khamsone Kham Naovarath, a thirteen year old native of Laos, decided to visit his neighbor, David Foote. Foote, a thirty-eight year old paraplegic confined to…