Angel v. Com.

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• holding that the juvenile defendant’s voluntary conversation with officers after signing a Spanish Miranda “waiver of rights form” was a valid waiver
• holding that Virginia’s geriatric release program provided juvenile nonhomicide offenders serving life sentences with a meaningful opportunity for release based on demonstrated maturity and rehabilitation, as required by Graham
• concluding that Graham did not apply to a sixteen-year-old defendant who was sentenced to three terms of life imprisonment for sex-related offenses when the relevant statute provided for conditional release at the age of sixty
• holding that three consecutive life-term sentences for a juvenile offender was not cruel and unusual punishment because Virginia’s conditional release statute provided a meaningful opportunity to obtain release based on demonstrated maturity and rehabilitation at age 60
• finding that consecutive life sentences were not de facto LWOP because the defendant could petition for conditional release at age sixty
• finding that consecutive life sentences were not de facto LWOP because the defendant could petition for conditional release at age sixty

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