PEOPLE v. CABALLERO

No. S190647.

55 Cal.4th 262 (2012)

145 Cal. Rptr. 3d 286

282 P.3d 291

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. RODRIGO CABALLERO, Defendant and Appellant. In re RODRIGO CABALLERO on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California.

August 16, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kosnett & Durchfort and David E. Durchfort for Defendant and Appellant.

L. Richard Braucher , Susan L. Burrell , Corene Thaedra Kendrick and Jonathan Laba for Pacific Juvenile Defender Center as Amicus Curie on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Constance de la Vega , Kyra Millich ; Jessica R. Feierman , Marsha Levick , Emily Keller , Joanna Visser ; Maureen Pacheco ; Elizabeth M. Calvin ; Sheryl Gordon McCloud ; Paula Pearlman and Shawna Parks for Juvenile Law Center, Human Rights Advocates, Human Rights Watch, Loyola Law School Center for Law and Policy, the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys and the Disability Rights Legal Center as Amici Curie on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr. , and Kamala D. Harris , Attorneys General, Dane R. Gillette , Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka , Assistant Attorney General, Chung L. Mar , Lauren E. Dana , Jaime L. Fuster and Lawrence M. Daniels , Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

CHIN, J.

In Graham v. Florida (2010) 560 U.S. ___ [176 L.Ed.2d 825, 130 S.Ct. 2011] (Graham), the high court held that the Eighth Amendment prohibits states from sentencing a juvenile convicted of nonhomicide offenses to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. (560 U.S. at p. ___ [130 S.Ct. at p. 2030].)

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