State v. Williams
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Appellant was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder, one count of attempted first-degree murder, and one count of burglary. Appellant committed the offenses when he was sixteen years old. The district court imposed a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment with the possibility of release for each first-degree murder conviction. Defendant’s convictions were affirmed on direct appeal. Nineteen years later, Appellant moved to correct his sentence based on the rule announced in Miller v. Alabama. Specifically, Appellant argued that the rule announced in Miller should be extended to statutory provisions that mandate the imposition of life imprisonment with the possibility of release and should apply to a district court’s discretionary imposition of consecutive sentences that are the functional equivalent of life imprisonment without the possibility of release. The postconviction court denied Appellant’s motion. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that the postconviction court’s decision was consistent with the Court’s recent rulings, and its ruling was a sound exercise of its discretion.
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