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JONES v. COM.

Record No. 131385.

763 S.E.2d 823 (2014)

Donte Lamar JONES v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

October 31, 2014.

Opinion by Justice CLEO E. POWELL, Justice.

This appeal arises from a motion to vacate his sentence filed by Donte Lamar Jones ("Jones") twelve years after he pled guilty to capital murder in exchange for a sentence of life without the possibility of parole. Jones argues that the Supreme Court of the United States' decision in Miller v. Alabama, ___ U.S. ___, 132 S.Ct. 2455, 183 L.Ed.2d 407 (2012), applies retroactively to...

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