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STATE v. SAMUEL

No. 116,423.

432 P.3d 666 (2019)

STATE of Kansas, Appellee, v. Roy Eugene SAMUEL, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed January 11, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter Maharry , of Kansas Appellate Defender Office, argued the cause, and Corrine E. Gunning , of the same office, was on the brief for appellant.

Ethan Zipf-Sigler , assistant district attorney, argued the cause, and Mark A. Dupree Sr. , district attorney, and Derek Schmidt , attorney general, were with him on the brief for appellee.

Roughly 19 years after his second-degree murder conviction, Roy Eugene Samuel filed a motion to correct an illegal sentence. He claims his sentence of life imprisonment with a mandatory 10-year term violates the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution because he was only 16 years old...

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