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Montgomery v. Louisiana

Supreme Court of the United States
Mar 23, 2015
575 U.S. 933 (2015)

Summary

granting certiorari to determine whether Miller applies retroactively

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Opinion

No. 14-280.

03-23-2015

Henry MONTGOMERY, petitioner, v. LOUISIANA.


Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Louisiana granted. In additon to question presented by petition, parties are directed to brief and argue the following question: "Do we have jurisdiction to decide whether the Supreme Court of Louisiana correctly refused to give retroactive effect in this case to our decision in Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. ___ (2012)?"


Summaries of

Montgomery v. Louisiana

Supreme Court of the United States
Mar 23, 2015
575 U.S. 933 (2015)

granting certiorari to determine whether Miller applies retroactively

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granting the petition for writ of certiorari

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granting writ of certiorari

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In Montgomery, the Supreme Court held that its prior decision in Miller v. Alabama, supra — which declared that mandatory life without parole for juvenile homicide offenders violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishments — constituted a new substantive rule that must be applied retroactively to cases on collateral review.

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Case details for

Montgomery v. Louisiana

Case Details

Full title:Henry MONTGOMERY, petitioner, v. LOUISIANA.

Court:Supreme Court of the United States

Date published: Mar 23, 2015

Citations

575 U.S. 933 (2015)
575 U.S. 911
135 S. Ct. 1546
191 L. Ed. 2d 635

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