Brown v. Bannister

How courts have described this case

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• holding that sentencing schemes that mandate LWOP for defendants who committed their crimes while under the age of eighteen violate the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on “cruel and unusual punishments”
• distinguishing “British subjects” from “American citizens”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).