State v. Stidham
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The Supreme Court revised the maximum 138-year sentence imposed on Defendant for crimes he committed as a juvenile, holding that the sentence was inappropriate.
In 1991, seventeen-year-old Defendant and two others committed a murder and other crimes. Defendant received a total sentence of 138 years, the maximum possible term-of-years sentence. The Supreme Court affirmed on appeal. In 2016, Defendant filed a petition for post-conviction relief, challenging the propriety of imposing the maximum term-of-years sentence on him for crimes committed as a juvenile. The post-conviction court granted the petition and imposed an aggregate sixty-eight-year sentence. The Supreme Court affirmed the post-conviction court's order granting relief and revised the sentence to eighty-eight years, holding that the 138-year sentence was inappropriate.
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