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STATE v. CHARLES

27691.

892 N.W.2d 915 (2017)

2017 S.D. 10

STATE of South Dakota, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. Daniel Neil CHARLES a/k/a Daniel Heinzelman a/k/a Daniel Ingalls, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

OPINION FILED March 29, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

MARTY J. JACKLEY , Attorney General, ANN C. MEYER , Assistant Attorney General, ROBERT MAYER , Deputy Attorney General, Pierre, South Dakota, Attorneys for plaintiff and appellee.

ALICIA A. D'ADDARIO , BRYAN A. STEVENSON , JOHN W. DALTON of Equal Justice Initiative, Montgomery, Alabama and BRAD SCHREIBER of Schreiber Law Office, Pierre, South Dakota and ROBERT VAN NORMAN , Rapid City, South Dakota, Attorneys for defendant and appellant.

[¶ 1.] In 2000, Daniel Charles received a mandatory sentence of life in prison for first-degree murder. Charles was 14 years old when he committed the offense. In 2012, the United States Supreme Court issued Miller v. Alabama, which barred mandatory life sentences against juvenile homicide offenders. 567 U.S. 460,

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