Bloomberg Law Brief: Life without parole for juveniles
SMU Associate Law Professor Meghan Ryan provided expertise for this story on a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that made a 2012 ruling banning automatic life-without-parole sentences for juvenile murderers retroactive.
SMU Associate Law Professor Meghan Ryan provided expertise for this story on a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that made retroactive a 2012 ruling banning automatic life-without-parole sentences for juvenile murderers. The ruling involved the case of Henry Montgomery, a Louisiana man still in prison for the 1963 murder of a sheriff’s deputy when he was 17 years old.