Kelley v. Wake County Sheriffs Dept.

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• life sentence can include sentence that is functional equivalent of life by leaving juvenile defendant ‘‘no chance for fulfillment outside prison walls, no chance for reconciliation with society, no hope’’ [internal quotation marks omitted]

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