Supreme Court To Consider Resentencing For Juvenile Lifers [NPR.org]

Samantha Sangenito 10/13/1512:00 PM

The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments Tuesday in a case that could determine the fate of more than 2,000 convicted juvenile murderers.

In 2012, the high court struck down as unconstitutional state laws that mandated an automatic sentence of life without any possibility of parole in these cases. The question now is whether that decision applies retroactively.

The case before the court began more than a half century ago, when Henry Montgomery, a teenager, was arrested and sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murder of a white deputy sheriff in East Baton Rouge, La. Now 70 years old, Montgomery is asking for a new sentencing hearing.

[For more of this story, written by Nina Totenberg, go to http://www.npr.org/sections/it...-for-juvenile-lifers]

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