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BLOUNT v. CLARKE

No. 17-6743.

890 F.3d 456 (2018)

Travion BLOUNT, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Harold W. CLARKE, Director of the Virginia Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: May 15, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Matthew Robert McGuire , OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF VIRGINIA, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellant. John Arthur Coggeshall , Norfolk, Virginia, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Mark R. Herring , Attorney General, Trevor S. Cox , Acting Solicitor General, Katherine Quinlan Adelfio , Assistant Attorney General, OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF VIRGINIA, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellant.

Vacated and remanded with instructions by published opinion. Judge Niemeyer wrote the opinion, in which Judge Wilkinson and Judge Motz joined.

Travion Blount was sentenced by a Virginia state court in March 2008 to six consecutive terms of life imprisonment plus 118 years' imprisonment for nonhomicide crimes that he committed when he was 15 years old. Under Virginia law, Blount was subject to a geriatric release program...

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