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GUZMAN v. STATE

No. 4D09-4041.

68 So.3d 295 (2011)

Gerardo Gabriel GUZMAN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied September 21, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carey Haughwout , Public Defender, and Christine C. Geraghty , Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Georgina Jimenez-Orosa , Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

MAY, C.J.

Criminal punishment of juvenile offenders and the United States Constitution come face to face in this appeal. The defendant appeals his life sentence1 on a violation of probation stemming from his conviction on multiple felony charges when he was fourteen years of age. He argues, among other issues, that the Eighth Amendment's protection against cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the court from imposing a life sentence without...

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