U.S.: Supreme Court takes up teen’s life-without-parole case Monday, March 9, 2020

Courthouse News Service

Taking up the case of a 15-year-old who killed his grandfather, the Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether a juvenile must be ruled “permanently incorrigible” to get a life sentence without parole.

The case comes out of Mississippi, where Brett Jones was sentenced in 2004 to life without the possibility of parole. Jones had stabbed his grandfather to death during a fight, and life without parole was the mandatory sentence at the time for murder in the state.

He needed to be resentenced, however, after the Supreme Court ruled in the 2012 case Miller v. Alabama that mandatory sentences of life without parole for juvenile offenders were unconstitutional.

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