96 So. 3d 1076 - Daugherty v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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12 state decisions

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1. “Because that holding is sufficient to decide these cases, we do not consider Jackson’s and Miller’s alternative argument that the Eighth Amendment re quires a categorical bar on life without parole for juveniles, or at least for those 14 and younger.... Although we do not foreclose a sentencer’s ability to make that judgment in homicide cases, we require it to take into account how children are different, and how those differences counsel against irrevocably sentencing them to a lifetime in prison.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 134 So. 3d 499 - Mason v. State

2. “Miller provides little direction on what the trial court may or may not do regarding the differing possible sentencing permutations. We do know, at a minimum, that the trial court may sentence a juvenile defendant to life without parole where the trial court has considered all the Miller factors “should the court upon reconsideration deem such sentence justified.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 183 So. 3d 406 - Carl Lee Booth v. State