State v. Delgado
Annotate this CaseIn 1996, Defendant was sentenced to sixty-five years imprisonment without parole for crimes that he committed when he was a juvenile. Under recent changes to juvenile sentencing law, a juvenile who has been convicted of murder to life in prison without parole may not be sentenced to life in prison unless the court considers mitigating factors associated with the juvenile’s age at the time of the crimes. Defendant was sentenced before these changes occurred. In 2014, Defendant filed a motion to correct his allegedly illegal sentence, arguing that the judge who sentenced him failed to consider youth-related mitigating factors. The trial court dismissed Defendant’s motion to correct. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that the sentencing court lacked jurisdiction to correct the sentence, as Defendant did not claim that the sentence was illegal or was imposed in an illegal manner.
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