U.S. v. McCAIN

No. 18-4723.

974 F.3d 506 (2020)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Edward McCAIN, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: September 10, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Cameron Jane Blazer , BLAZER LAW FIRM, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, for Appellant. Michael Rhett DeHart , OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Charleston, South Carolina, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Sherri A. Lydon , United States Attorney, Columbia, South Carolina, Dean H. Secor , Assistant United States Attorney, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Charleston, South Carolina, for Appellee.

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge Rushing wrote the opinion, in which Judge King and Judge Diaz joined.


In 2010, Edward McCain received a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for crimes he committed when he was 17. Six years later, McCain moved to vacate his sentence in light of the Supreme Court's intervening decisions in Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460, 132 S.Ct...

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