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ATWELL v. STATE

No. SC14-193.

197 So.3d 1040 (2016)

Angelo ATWELL, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

May 26, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carol Stafford Haughwout , Public Defender, and Paul Edward Petillo , Assistant Public Defender, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, West Palm Beach, FL, for Petitioner.

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, Tallahassee, FL; Consiglia Terenzio , Bureau Chief, and Heidi Lynn Bettendorf , Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, FL, for Respondent.

Paolo Giuseppe Annino , Florida State University College of Law, Tallahassee, FL, for Amicus Curiae Public Interest Law Center.

Angelo Atwell was sixteen years old when, in August 1990, he committed armed robbery and first-degree murder. Under the statute then in effect, Atwell was sentenced for the first-degree murder to a mandatory term of life imprisonment, with the possibility of parole after twenty-five years, and was sentenced to life imprisonment without...

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