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Justices asked to review Arizona’s life-without-parole sentencing scheme for youths

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Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. Louisiana , the justices ruled that Miller also applied retroactively – that is, to anyone sentenced before 2012. A trial court in Arizona agreed that Bassett was entitled to a hearing. In Bassett v.