Derrick Lynn Lewis v. State

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• reforming judgment on capital murder conviction of juvenile from “life without parole” to “life”
• finding error, but harmless error, in the admission of an animation that attempted to portray the actions of at least four persons when many of the details contained in the animation “were provided by nothing more than pure speculation”
• reforming the defendant’s sentence of life without the possibility of parole where the State admitted the sentence was unconstitutional and because there was sufficient evidence in the record to show that the defendant was indeed a minor at the time of the offense
• reforming the defendant’s sentence of life without the possibility of parole where the State admitted the sentence was unconstitutional and because there was sufficient evidence in the record to show that the defendant was indeed a minor at the time of the offense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).