{"id":421,"date":"2018-07-24T14:17:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T18:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgsexcrimeslawyer.com\/?p=421"},"modified":"2024-09-06T12:28:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T16:28:52","slug":"florida-court-oks-life-sentence-for-juvenile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/florida-court-oks-life-sentence-for-juvenile\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Court Okays Life Sentence for Juvenile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Criminal cases involving juvenile defendants can raise a number of tricky legal questions. Florida\u2019s Third District Court of Appeal recently took up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3dca.flcourts.org\/Opinions\/3D17-1440.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">case<\/a> of a man who was sentenced to life in prison when he was a minor. The decision offers some important insight for anyone facing criminal charges as a juvenile, whether it\u2019s for a Florida sex crime or another offense.<\/p>\n<p>Defendant was 17 years old when he was charged with first degree murder in 1973. He eventually pled guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. Defendant got that parole six years later, when he was let out of prison on supervised release. He was sent back to prison two years later after being convicted of cocaine possession and battery on a law enforcement officer. He was released on parole and sent back to prison two additional times over the next two decades.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Defendant filed a motion seeking to correct his original life sentence. He argued that the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s decision in <a href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/567\/460\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Miller v. Alabama<\/em><\/a> and the Florida Supreme Court\u2019s decision in <a href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/cases\/florida\/supreme-court\/2016\/sc14-193.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Atwell v. State<\/em><\/a> made it unlawful for a minor to be sentenced to life in prison. In <em>Miller<\/em>, the U.S. Supreme Court said that a juvenile can be sentenced to life in prison must receive some meaningful opportunity to obtain release based on demonstrated maturity and rehabilitation. In <em>Atwell<\/em>, the state\u2019s highest court struck down a sentence for a juvenile who would not have had the opportunity for parole for some 140 years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/florida-court-oks-life-sentence-for-juvenile\/#more-421\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Criminal cases involving juvenile defendants can raise a number of tricky legal questions. 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