GRAHAM v. STATE

No. 1D06-3190.

982 So.2d 43 (2008)

Terrance Jamar GRAHAM, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied May 16, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bryan S. Gowdy and John S. Mills of Mills & Creed, P.A., Jacksonville, for Appellant.

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, and Joshua R. Heller, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.


WOLF, J.

Appellant raises a number of issues on appeal. We affirm as to all of the issues; however, we write to address appellant's assertion that his sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for a crime committed as a juvenile violates the federal and Florida prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment.

At the age of sixteen, appellant was charged with (1) armed burglary with assault...

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