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STATE v. JENSEN

27917.

894 N.W.2d 397 (2017)

2017 S.D. 18

STATE of South Dakota, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. Paul Dean JENSEN, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

OPINION FILED April 19, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

MARTY J. JACKLEY , Attorney General, ANN C. MEYER , Assistant Attorney General, Pierre, South Dakota, Attorneys for plaintiff and appellee.

JEFF LARSON , Jeff Larson Law, LLP, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Attorneys for defendant and appellant.

[¶ 1.] In 1996, Paul Dean Jensen received concurrent, mandatory life sentences for the first-degree murder and kidnapping of Michael Hare. Jensen was 14 years old when he committed the offenses. In 2012, the United States Supreme Court issued Miller v. Alabama, barring mandatory life sentences against juvenile...

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