Miller v. Alabama

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How courts have described this case

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• holding that mandatory sentences of life without parole for juvenile offenders violate the Eighth Amendment
• holding mandatory life sentences without parole for juvenile offenders violate the Eighth Amendment
• prohibiting 22 mandatory sentences of life without the possibility of parole for offenders under the age of 18

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