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AKINS v. STATE

No. 1D11-5807.

104 So.3d 1173 (2013)

Aundra R. AKINS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied January 14, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Aundra R. Akins, pro se, Appellant.

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, Trisha Meggs Pate , Assistant Attorney General, and Joshua Heller , Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.

BENTON, C.J.

Aundra R. Akins argues that his life sentence without the possibility of parole for attempted murder is unconstitutional under Graham v. Florida, ___ U.S. ___, 130 S.Ct. 2011, 176 L.Ed.2d 825 (2010), which held that juvenile offenders may not be sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for a nonhomicide crime. Id. at 2030. Because appellant was 14 when he

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