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Certainty In A World Of Uncertainty: Proposing Statutory Guidance In Sentencing Juveniles To Life Without Parole, Sonia A. Mardarewich
Certainty In A World Of Uncertainty: Proposing Statutory Guidance In Sentencing Juveniles To Life Without Parole, Sonia A. Mardarewich
Sonia A Mardarewich
CERTAINTY IN A WORLD OF UNCERTAINTY: PROPOSING
STATUTORY GUIDANCE IN SENTENCING JUVENILES TO LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE
Sonia Mardarewich[1]
Florida Coastal School of Law
March 2013
Abstract: Before the Supreme Court’s decision in Miller v. Alabama, the states were divided between mandatory and discretionary life without the possibility of parole sentencing approaches. The Supreme Court decision of Miller eliminated mandatory life without parole for juvenile defendants under the age of eighteen at the time of the crime. The Supreme Court now mandates that every juvenile must be granted an individualized sentencing hearing to ensure youth and attendant mitigating circumstances …