SLRI Presents: State Constitutions & The Limits Of Criminal Punishments, a symposium at Rutgers Law School | October 24, 2024
Strikes down "habitual offender" sentence
Categories: Sentencing
Intellectual disability is relevant to proportionality review
Bans life sentences for youth convicted of 2nd degree murder
Bans all youth LWOP
Bans all mandatory minimums for youth
Mandatory death penalty violates state constitution
Bans youth LWOP
Bans LWOP up to age 21
35 years minimum is de facto LWOP
Miller v. Alabama applies to de facto LWOP