Barnes v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “We conclude that Graham prohibits the state trial courts from sentencing juvenile nonhomicide offenders to prison terms that ensure these offenders will be imprisoned without obtaining a meaningful opportunity to obtain future early release during their natural lives based on their demonstrated maturity and rehabilitation. [[Image here]] In light of Graham , and other Supreme Court precedent, we conclude that the Eighth Amendment will not tolerate prison sentences that lack a review mechanism for evaluating this special class of offenders for demonstrable maturity and reform in the future because any term of imprisonment for a juvenile is qualitatively different than a comparable period of incarceration is for an adult.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 184 So. 3d 1174 - Alain Troche v. State of Florida

2. “The statutory provisions governing juvenile sentencing do not apply to the defendant’s five-year sentence for count twenty and his one-year sentence for count twenty-one; thus, resentencing on these counts is not necessary.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kenneth Purdy v. State