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PEOPLE v. SOLIS

No. G048019.

224 Cal.App.4th 727 (2014)

168 Cal. Rptr. 3d 814

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. WESLEY LEONEL SOLIS, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division Three.

March 11, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tracy A. Rogers , under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Kamala D. Harris , Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette , Chief Assistant Attorney General, Julie L. Garland , Assistant Attorney General, Barry Carlton and Adrianne S. Denault , Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

BEDSWORTH, J. —

Under the Eighth Amendment, juvenile offenders who commit homicide cannot be sentenced to prison for life without the possibility of parole (LWOP), except in the rare case where their crimes reflect irreparable corruption and they have no prospects for reform. Although appellant was convicted of special circumstances murder, and was thus statutorily eligible for...

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