Mikel Steinfeld , Maricopa County Public Defender's Office, Phoenix, and Katherine Puzauskas , The Arizona Justice Project, Tempe, Attorneys for Amicus Curiae Arizona Attorneys for Criminal Justice
Keith Hilzendeger , Office of the Federal Public Defender, Phoenix, Thomas Phalen , Phoenix, Molly Brizgys, Tempe, Sarah Stone, Law Office of Sarah Stone, Phoenix, Attorneys for Amici Curiae Tonatihu Aguilar, Travis Wade Amaral, Jonathan Andrew Arias, Freddy Crespin, Scott Lee DeShaw, Eulandas J. Flowers, Michael Paul Jessup, Bobby Charles Purcell, Cedric Joseph Rue, Jr., Richard Rojas, and Bobby Jerry Tatum
CHIEF JUSTICE BALES authored the opinion of the Court, in which VICE CHIEF JUSTICE PELANDER and JUSTICES BRUTINEL, TIMMER, and BOLICK joined. JUSTICE BOLICK, joined by VICE CHIEF JUSTICE PELANDER, filed a concurring opinion.
CHIEF JUSTICEBALES, opinion of the Court:
¶ 1 We here consider whether the trial court erred by summarily denying petitions for post-conviction relief alleging that petitioners' natural life sentences for homicides committed as juveniles are unconstitutional in light of Miller v. Alabama, ___ U.S. ___, 132 S.Ct. 2455...
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