POM of PA, LLC v. Dept. of Revenue & City of Philadelphia

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “permanent incorrigibility is not an eligibility criterion” for sentences of life without parole
• recognizing that “[different] sen- tencers presented with the same facts might decide that life without parole remains appropriate despite the defendant’s youth”
• holding that Miller does not require a specific finding of incorrigibility and lack of amenability to rehabilitation but states may continue to require such explicit findings
• holding that before sentencing a juvenile homicide offender to life without parole, a sentencer must “consider an offender’s youth and attendant characteristics,” but need not make a specific finding regarding incorrigibility
• holding that “permanent incorrigibility is not an eligibility criterion akin to sanity or a lack of intellectual disability,” and thus no separate factual finding is required before sentencing juvenile homicide offender to LWOP
• holding that a juvenile homicide offender may be sentenced to life without parole so long as “the sentence is not mandatory and the sentencer . . . has discretion to impose a lesser punishment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).