By North Carolina Judicial Branch
State v. Conner
Whether imposition of two consecutive sentences which together make a juvenile defendant eligible for parole after forty-five years in prison constituted de facto life without parole in violation of the state or federal constitutions as applied to a juvenile offender found guilty of first-degree murder and first-degree rape and who the trial court determined was neither incorrigible nor irredeemable.
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Summary
Whether imposition of two consecutive sentences which together make a juvenile defendant eligible for parole after forty-five years in prison constituted de facto life without parole in violation of the state or federal constitutions as applied to a juvenile offender found guilty of first-degree murder and first-degree rape and who the trial court determined was neither incorrigible nor irredeemable.