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

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This week, we highlight petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether Arizona’s sentencing law for juvenile offenders convicted of first-degree murder violates Miller because, although the law allows for the possibility of release, the state abolished parole for homicide in 1994. Credit Bureau Center, LLC v.