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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