Graham v. Florida

id: graham-v-florida-178-16708968
title: Graham v. Florida
text: Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48 (2010), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States holding that juvenile offenders cannot be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for non-homicide offenses. In June 2012, in the related Miller v. Alabama, the Court ruled that mandatory sentences for life without parole for juvenile offenders, even in cases of murder, was cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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description: 2010 United States Supreme Court case
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_v._Florida
date created: 2010-05-17T21:15:01Z
date modified: 2024-09-04T17:10:17Z
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