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Ninth Circuit· 8/9/2024

Roger Helm, Jr. v. Ryan Thornell

Citations

  • 112 F.4th 674

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  • a sentencing hearing “where youth and its attendant characteristics are considered as sentencing factors enforces the Eighth Amendment’s substantive limits.” (cleaned up)
  • Miller “does not require that a state court’s weighing of the mitigating factors associated with youth be conducted in accordance with any particular substantive criteria of incorrigibility.”
  • “Where, as here, a petitioner must clear two hurdles in order to obtain affirmative habeas relief on the merits, we 2 may uphold a denial of relief on either ground.”

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