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· 8/7/2013

Roosevelt Moore v. M. Biter

Citations

  • 725 F.3d 1184
  • 2013 WL 4011011
  • 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 16321

How courts have described this case

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  • concluding that this is the dispositive factor of whether to consider the individual sentences or the aggregate sentence
  • holding that Graham clearly prohibited a sentence 'under which a juvenile offender who would not be eligible for parole until age 144
  • holding that Graham clearly prohibited a sentence under which a juvenile offender who would not be eligible for parole until age 144
  • holding that Graham clearly prohibited a sentence under which a juvenile offender who would not be eligible for parole until age 144
  • holding that, in Graham, \the United States Supreme Court clearly established that the Eighth Amendment prohibits the punishment of life without parole for juvenile nonhomicide offenders\ (emphasis added)
  • holding that a “term-of- years sentence for multiple crimes” is “materially indistinguishable from a life sentence without parole” when the petitioner will not be eligible for release within his or her lifetime

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Judges: Pregerson, Fletcher, Nguyen

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