STATE v. JAMES

No. 514PA11-2.

813 S.E.2d 195 (2018)

STATE of North Carolina v. Harry Sharod JAMES.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

Filed May 11, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joshua H. Stein , Attorney General, by Sandra Wallace-Smith , Special Deputy Attorney General, and Robert C. Montgomery , Senior Deputy Attorney General, for the State-appellant-appellee.

Glenn Gerding , Appellate Defender, by David W. Andrews , Assistant Appellate Defender, for defendant-appellant-appellee.

Juvenile Law Center, by Marsha L. Levick , pro hac vice, and Office of the Juvenile Defender, by Eric J. Zogry , for Juvenile Law Center, Campaign for Fair Sentencing of Youth, and Juvenile Sentencing Project, amici curiae.

Mark Dorosin , Elizabeth Haddix , Pittsboro, Jennifer Watson Marsh , Brent Ducharme , and Allen Buansi for Senators Angela Bryant and Erica Smith-Ingram, Representatives Kelly Alexander, Larry Bell, Jean Farmer-Butterfield, Rosa Gill, George Graham, Mickey Michaux, Amos Quick III, Evelyn Terry, and Shelly Willingham, and Professor Theodore M. Shaw; and Youth Justice Project of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, by K. Ricky Watson, Jr. and Peggy Nicholson, for Great Expectations, amici curiae.


This case involves the validity of the procedures prescribed in N.C.G.S. §§ 15A-1340.19A to 15A-1340.19D for the sentencing of juveniles convicted of first-degree murder in light of Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460, 132 S.Ct. 2455, 183 L.Ed.2d 407 (2012), and its progeny and other...

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