Legal Opinion
In re the Personal Restraint of McNeil
Washington Supreme Court
Decided September 25, 2014No. Nos. 87654-1; 88172-3PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
¶1 About 25 years ago, petitioners Russell Duane McNeil and Herbert Chief Rice Jr. were tried as adults and convicted of aggravated first degree murder for crimes committed while the petitioners were both approximately 17 years and 5 months old. They were each given the mandatory minimum sentence for that crime — life in prison without the possibility of early release.
Fairhurst, J.
¶2 On June 25, 2012, the United States Supreme Court issued its opinion in Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S._, 132 S. Ct. 2455, 183 L. Ed. 2d 407 (2012). Miller holds that a mandatory minimum sentence of life without the…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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