Nolley, Erron Keith

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Miller did not apply to single sentence of life imprisonment with the possibility of parole after forty years imposed mandatorily on a juvenile homicide offender
• rejecting argument juvenile offender entitled to individualized sentencing hearing before assessment of sentence of confinement for life with possibility of parole
• focusing on related issue of whether sentence of minor to life imprisonment without individualized sentencing hearing is cruel and unusual punishment
• limiting the application of Miller to mandatory LWOP cases for juvenile defenders and not applying it to cases in which parole is possible at some time
• acknowledging appellate court's use of Tex. Penal Code § 12.31(a) (2013) (authorizing life imprisonment rather than life without parole to reform unconstitutional nonparolable sentences into constitutional parolable sentences)
• “Miller does not entitle all juvenile offenders to individualized sentencing. It requires an individualized hearing only when a juvenile can be sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.”

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Cited by

46 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

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  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-09-07· cited 30×
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  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-09-17· cited 28×
• State v. Link
  Oregon Supreme Court· 2021-03-04· cited 28×
• Ex parte Cardenas
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2018-02-08· cited 25×
• Matthews v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-11-06· cited 23×
• Diamond v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-06-07· cited 22×
• United States v. Tony Sparks
  Fifth Circuit· 2019-10-24· cited 18×
• Narjes Modarresi v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-04-19· cited 15×
• State v. Gulley
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2022-03-04· cited 11×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2020-10-09· cited 5×
• Shalouei v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-03-07· cited 5×
• McCardle v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2018-05-01· cited 3×
• Venegas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2018-04-25· cited 3×
• Eric Lopez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-07-16· cited 1×
• Terrance Henry v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2015-07-15
• Herbert Ray Wilson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2015-04-16
• Fernando Juarez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2014-10-09
• Abraham Parra v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2015-04-09
• Victor Manuel Alas v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2016-07-28
• Terrell Delone Maxwell v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2016-08-03

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Miller v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 2012-06-25· cited 6,816×
• Roper v. Simmons
  Supreme Court· 2005-03-01· cited 3,523×
• Graham v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 2010-05-17· cited 3,477×
• Thompson v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-29· cited 617×
• United States v. Reingold
  Second Circuit· 2013-09-26· cited 89×
• Maxwell, Ex Parte Terrell
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-03-12· cited 76×
• Derrick Lynn Lewis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2013-05-29· cited 17×

Other cases named Nolley, Erron Keith

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Nolley, Erron Keith
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-04-30