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

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Louisiana , the justices ruled that Miller also applied retroactively – that is, to anyone sentenced before 2012. Four years later, in Montgomery v. In light of Montgomery , Bassett sought post-conviction relief to determine whether his sentence was unconstitutional. New Jersey ; and (2) whether this court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v.