in Re Rosalinda M. Daniels, an Incapacitated Person

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• noting that “the Eighth Amendment prohibits not only de jure life sentences, but also de facto life sentences—a term of years so long as to equate for all practical purposes to a life sentence.”
• classifying Graham’s holding as applicable to “juvenile offenders sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for a crime other than a homicide”
• denying habeas relief on similar theory to petitioner sentenced to one-hundred-forty years for crimes committed at age fifteen, where the petitioner would be eligible to petition for parole at age fifty-one

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