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Title: Adolescent Brain Science After Graham V. Florida.
Author : Notre Dame Law Review
Release Date : January 01, 2011
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 312 KB

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INTRODUCTION In Graham v. Florida, (1) the Supreme Court held that the Eighth Amendment prohibits a sentence of life without possibility of parole for a nonhomicide crime committed when the offender was under the age of eighteen. (2) Justice Kennedy's majority opinion (3) in this closely watched case is remarkable for a number of reasons, chief among them its rejection of the "death is different" mantra (4) that had for so long prevented principles from death penalty jurisprudence from informing constitutional bounds on term-of-years sentencing. (5) Having broken down that wall, the Graham Court easily applied to juvenile life without parole the developmental conclusions that had partially underlain its earlier abolition of the juvenile death penalty. (6)