Britt v. State (Per Curiam)
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Appellant was found guilty of several offenses, including first-degree murder. The case was reversed and remanded. After a retrial, Appellant was again found guilty of first-degree murder and related offenses. Appellant was sentenced to life imprisonment for the first-degree murder conviction. Appellant later filed a pro se petition for writ of habeas corpus, arguing that his life sentence for the murder conviction was illegal because he was a juvenile at the time of the crime. The circuit court dismissed the petition on the grounds that it did not conform to pleading rules. The Supreme Court dismissed Appellant’s appeal and mooted the motions filed in relation to the appeal, holding that, pursuant to Murry v. Hobbs, because Appellant’s life sentence for first-degree murder was not mandatory, this sentence was not illegal under Miller v. Alabama.
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