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
35 years minimum is de facto LWOP
Bans mandatory LWOP for drug possession
Youth LWOP is presumed disproprotionate
Bans mandatory LWOP for 18 year olds
Bans life sentences for youth convicted of 2nd degree murder
FL "cruel or unusual" clause is broader than 8th Amendment
Miller v. Alabama applies to de facto LWOP
Bans LWOP up to age 21