State v. Lloyd
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder, felony murder, and abuse of a seventeen-month-old child. Defendant was sentenced to life without possibility of parole for fifty years (hard fifty). The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant’s convictions but vacated his hard fifty life sentence, holding that the hard fifty sentencing procedure set out in Kan. Stat. Ann. 21-4635 was unconstitutional under Alleyne v. United States and State v. Soto because the sentencing scheme permitted a judge, rather than a jury, to find aggravating circumstances necessary to impose an increased mandatory minimum sentence in violation of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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