Delaluz v. Walsh

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that mandatory minimum thirty-five-year sentence without the 16 possibility of parole for an eighteen-year-old defendant required consideration of mitigating factors of youth
• concluding that a sentence of 50 years with parole eligibility after 35 years for a non-homicide juvenile offender was a de facto life sentence
• concluding that a sentence of 50 years with parole eligibility after 35 years for a non-homicide juvenile offender was a de facto life sentence
• holding that consecutive sentences resulting in lengthy imprisonment triggers Miller-Null-type protections
• holding a sentence of thirty-five years without the possibility parole on two counts of burglary and two counts of robbery violates Miller principles
• indicating that imprisonment deprives a juvenile of “leading a more normal adult life”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).