U.S. Supreme Court,
Criminal,
Constitutional Law
Jan. 29, 2016
Ban on mandatory LWOP for juveniles retroactive
The high court'sMontgomery v. Louisiana decision is the latest development in two trends in criminal justice.
Hadar Aviram
Professor
UC Hastings College of the Law
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Hebrew Univ, Jerusalem
Hadar is author of "Yesterday's Monsters: The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of Parole" (University of California Press, 2020).
Monday's U.S. Supreme Court decision in Montgomery v. Louisiana, 14-280, is the latest development in two different but interrelated themes: one, the increased awareness of the difference between juveniles and adults and its implications for criminal justice; and the other, the bipartisan post-recession move to reform punishment.
In 1963, 17-year-old Henry Montgomery killed a police officer. His conviction for "guilty without capital punishment" carried, per Louisiana law, ...
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