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JAMES v. U.S.

No. 11-CO-704.

59 A.3d 1233 (2013)

Jovan D. JAMES, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided January 24, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fletcher P. Thompson , Crownsville, MD, for appellant.

Shane W. Waller , Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Ronald C. Machen Jr. , United States Attorney, Roy W. McLeese III , Assistant United States Attorney at time brief was filed, Elizabeth Trosman and Margaret J. Chriss , Assistant United States Attorneys, were on brief, for appellee.

Before WASHINGTON, Chief Judge, GLICKMAN, Associate Judge, and NEBEKER, Senior Judge.

NEBEKER, Senior Judge:

Appellant, Jovan D. James, appeals from a denial of an attack on his sentence of thirty years to life imprisonment, arguing that the mandatory thirty-year minimum, D.C.Code § 22-2404 (1996 Supp.)1 imposed upon him, a minor at the time of the crime, violates the Eighth Amendment as interpreted under Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551, 125 S.Ct. 1183, 161 L.Ed.2d 1 (2005),

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