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FALCON v. STATE

No. SC13-865.

162 So.3d 954 (2015)

Rebecca Lee FALCON, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied April 27, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elliot H. Scherker of Greenberg Traurig, P.A., Miami, FL; Paolo Giuseppe Annino , Co-Director, Public Interest Law Center, Florida State College of Law, Tallahassee, FL; and Karen Marci a Gottlieb , Coconut Grove, FL, for Petitioner.

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, and Trisha Meggs Pate , Bureau Chief, Tallahassee, FL, for Respondent.

Marsha L. Levick , Juvenile Law Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and George E. Schulz, Jr. of Holland & Knight, Jacksonville, FL, for Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center, et al.

The issue in this case is whether the United States Supreme Court's decision in Miller v. Alabama, ___ U.S. ___, 132 S.Ct. 2455, 2469, 183 L.Ed.2d 407 (2012)—which "forbids a sentencing scheme that mandates life in prison without possibility of parole for juvenile offenders"—applies...

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