The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a juvenile offender can be sentenced to life without parole even while not having a separate factual finding that the defendant is incapable of rehabilitation, or what the law refers to as “permanently incorrigible.”
The conservative majority court ruled 6-3 along ideological lines, with Justice Brett Kavanaugh writing for the majority and the court’s three liberals dissenting.
The opinion affirms the sentence of defendant Brett Jones, who received a life sentence without parole for murdering his grandfather with a kitchen knife during a domestic dispute. Jones, who was then 15, claimed to have acted in self-defense.
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{Matzav.com}
