Legal Opinion
People v. Lehmkuhl
Colorado Court of Appeals
Decided June 20, 2013No. Court of Appeals No. 12CA1218PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
JUDGE GABRIEL
T1 Defendant, Jordan Lehmkuhl, appeals the district court's order denying his Crim. P. 85(c) motion challenging, on cruel and unusual punishment grounds, the constitutionality of sentences he received in connection with acts committed while he was a juvenile, Because we conclude. that (1) *636Lehmkuhl's sentence was not the functional equivalent of a life without parole sentence, and (2) the district court properly considered his youth and other mitigating circumstances, we affirm.
I. Background
12 In October 2001, Lehmkuhl, who was then seventeen years old, broke into a…
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