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High Court Decision Called ‘Alarming Reversal’ in  Youth Justice

The Crime Report

The decision follows multiple previous precedents set by the Court over the past decade that sharply limited courts’ ability to sentence a juvenile offender to life in prison without parole, the lawyers wrote. The court is fooling no one,”” Justice Sonia Sotomayor said in her dissent. In Miller v.

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Court upholds life-without-parole sentence for Mississippi man convicted as juvenile

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to impose new restrictions on the ability of states to sentence juveniles to life without parole, rejecting a challenge from a Mississippi man, Brett Jones, who was convicted of the 2004 stabbing death of his grandfather, a crime committed when Jones was 15.

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Modernize U.S. abortion law — and return abortion policy to the democratic process

SCOTUSBlog

The abortion providers’ case relies heavily on stare decisis. Guinness World Records recently announced that an Alabama boy named Curtis Means is the most premature baby to survive. The Texas Heartbeat Act exemplifies lawmakers’ frustration with the status quo and their determination to protect unborn children and mothers.

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