Miller v. Alabama | |
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Argued March 19, 2012 Decided June 25, 2012 | |
Full case name | Evan Miller, Petitioner v. Alabama; Kuntrell Jackson, Petitioner v. Ray Hobbs, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Docket nos. | 10-9646 10-9647 |
Citations | 567 U.S. 460 (more) 132 S. Ct. 2455; 183 L. Ed. 2d 407 |
Case history | |
Prior | Conviction affirmed sub nom. Miller v. State, 2010 WL 2546422 (Ala. Crim. App. June 25, 2010); rehearing denied, and new decision published, 63 So.3d 676 (Ala. Crim. App. August 27, 2010); certiorari denied sub nom. Ex parte Miller, unpub. n°1091663 (Ala. October 22, 2010); certiorari granted, 565 U. S. 1013 (2011). Conviction affirmed sub nom. Jackson v. State, 359 Ark. 87, 194 S.W.3d 757 (2004); petition for habeas relief dismissed, unpub. n°cv-08-28-2 (Jefferson Cnty Cir. Ct.); affirmed, 2011 Ark. 49, 378 S. W. 3d 103 (2011); certiorari granted, 565 U. S. 1013 (2011) |
Holding | |
The Eighth Amendment prohibits a sentencing scheme that requires life in prison without the possibility of parole for juvenile homicide offenders.[1] | |
Court membership | |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | Kagan, joined by Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor |
Concurrence | Breyer, joined by Sotomayor |
Dissent | Roberts, joined by Scalia, Thomas, Alito |
Dissent | Thomas, joined by Scalia |
Dissent | Alito, joined by Scalia |
Laws applied | |
U.S. Const. Amend. VIII |
Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012),[2] was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that mandatory sentences of life without the possibility of parole are unconstitutional for juvenile offenders.[3][4] The ruling applied even to those persons who had committed murder as a juvenile, extending beyond Graham v. Florida (2010), which had ruled juvenile life without parole sentences unconstitutional for crimes excluding murder.