SLRI Presents: State Constitutions & The Limits Of Criminal Punishments, a symposium at Rutgers Law School | October 24, 2024
Permits de facto youth LWOP for certain crimes
Categories: Sentencing
Bans de facto LWOP for youth under 18
Bans mandatory LWOP for people under 21
Bans LWOP for youth under 18
Repeated parole denials yield de facto LWOP sentence
Repeated parole denials yield excessive sentences
Felony murder youth LWOP violates state constitution
Relying on "superpredator" myth in sentencing violates due process