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STATE v. RAMOS

No. 92454-6.

387 P.3d 650 (2017)

STATE of Washington, Respondent, v. Joel Rodriguez RAMOS, Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Washington, EN BANC.

Filed: January 12, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy P. Collins , Washington Appellate Project, 1511 3rd Ave., Ste. 701, Seattle, WA, 98101-3647, David L. Donnan , Meryhew Law Group, 600 1st Ave., Ste. 512, Seattle, WA, 98104-2253, for Petitioner.

Gretchen Eileen Verhoef , Spokane County Prosecutor's Office, 1100 W. Mallon Ave., Spokane, WA, 99260-0270, Kenneth L. Ramm Jr. , Joseph Anthony Brusic , Yakima County Prosecutor's Office, 128 N. 2nd St., Rm. 329, Yakima, WA, 98901-2621, for Respondent.

Suzanne Lee Elliott , Attorney at Law, 705 2nd Ave., Ste. 1300, Seattle, WA, 98104-1797, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Washington Defender Association.

Suzanne Lee Elliott , Attorney at Law, 705 2nd Ave., Ste. 1300, Seattle, WA, 98104-1797, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Washington Association of Criminal Lawyers.

George Yeannakis , Office of Public Defense, P.O. Box 40957, Olympia, WA, 98504-0957, Marsha L. Levick , Juvenile Law Center, 1315 Walnut Street, Suite 400, 4th Floor, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Juvenile Law Center.

Nancy Lynn Talner , Attorney at Law, 901 5th Ave., Ste. 630, Seattle, WA, 98164-2008, Marc Allen Boman , David A. Perez , Mica Dawn Simpson , Perkins Coie LLP, 1201 3rd Ave., Ste. 4900, Seattle, WA, 98101-3099, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of American Civil Liberties Union of Washington.

Robert S. Chang , Lorraine K. Bannai , Jessica Levin , Seattle University School of Law, 901 12th Ave., Korematsu Center For Law & Equality, Seattle, WA, 98122-4411, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality.

Ann E. Benson , WA Defender's Assoc., 110 Prefontaine Pl. S., Ste. 610, Seattle, WA, 98104-2626, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Washington Defender Association.

Melissa R. Lee , Seattle University School of Law, 901 12th Ave., Korematsu Center For Law & Equality, Seattle, WA, 98122-4411, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Columbia Legal Services.

¶ 1 When a juvenile offender is sentenced in adult court, youth matters on a constitutional level. Even for homicide offenses, "mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juveniles violate the Eighth Amendment." Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. ___, 132 S.Ct. 2455, 2464, 183 L.Ed.2d 407 (2012) (citing...

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