Louisiana Court of Appeal· 10/1/2014

State v. Fletcher

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149 So. 3d 934
2014 La. App. LEXIS 2315
2014 WL 4853122

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rejecting a claim that the district court’s imposition of a life-without-parole sentence following a post-Miller resentencing violated the Louisiana Constitution
rejecting a claim that the district court’s imposition of a life-without-parole sentence following a post-Miller resentencing violated the Louisiana Constitution
stating that in determining the exces-siveness of a sentence, “[t]he trial judge is not required to list every aggravating or mitigating circumstance so long as the record reflects that he adequately considered the guidelines ’ of the [La. C. Cr. P. art. 894.1].”
affirming the defendant's resen-tencing to LWOP where the fifteen-year-old offender “executed his own parents in cold blood” despite a good upbringing, expressed no genuine remorse, threatened his sister, and was unlikely to be rehabilitated
\ Miller does not require proof of an additional element of 'irretrievable depravity' or 'irrevocable corruption' \
defendant, convicted of second degree murder, was fifteen years and eight months old when he killed both his parents and was sentenced to life without parole

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Judges: Brown, Garrett, Williams

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