Popplewell v. Pierce

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the murder review hearing, in its current form, cannot cure a Miller violation
• concluding that a “court cannot impose the state’s most severe penalties on a juvenile offender without regard for the unique quali- ties of youth that might make imposition of that sentence inappropriate”
• discussing the Supreme Court’s observations in Roper and Graham about the differences between juveniles and adults
• determining the imposition of a mandatory minimum sentence of life with the possibility of parole on a juvenile homicide offender without an individualized sentencing hearing was unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment
• explaining how adoption of Measure 11 extin- guished the role of the juvenile court in determining whether certain-aged youths charged with certain offenses would be tried in adult court or adjudicated in juvenile court
• limiting “Miller’s applicability . . . [to] the most serious penalties”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).