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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.