>> [...] juvenile criminals cannot be sentenced to life in prison without parole except in homicide cases [...] only 109 people were currently serving life terms for crimes committed while they were minors.
If this account is correct, this seems like a non-event. How many of the 109 life-sentenced-minors are serving a life sentences crimes other than murder? My guess is ZERO.
So — we can’t lock a minor up for life (without parole) except in murder cases? Was there a subset of non-murder-related life-without-parole sentences for juveniles?
SnakeDoc
What about for a juvenile who commits a sexual crime and it is later determined that he shouldn’t be released because he might still be a danger to society? Can said juvenile be held indefinitely? If not, it would seem the Supreme Court is contradicting itself today.