Proctor v. Hobbs (Majority)
Annotate this CaseIn 1983, Appellant pled guilty to ten counts of aggravated robbery and one count of robbery. For one of the aggravated-robbery convictions, Appellant was sentenced to life imprisonment. In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Graham v. Florida that a sentence of life without parole on a juvenile nonhomicide offense was unconstitutional. Appellant subsequently filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus alleging that his sentence of life imprisonment for aggravated robbery was illegal. After a hearing, the circuit court granted writ of habeas corpus and reduced Appellant’s life sentence to a sentence of forty years. Appellant appealed, arguing that a person resentenced under Graham is entitled to a plenary resentencing hearing. The Supreme Court rejected this argument in Hobbs v. Turner. The Supreme Court affirmed the sentence imposed by the circuit court and declined to overrule or modify its decision in Turner, as Appellant failed to give any compelling reason to do so.
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