Six months ago the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling mandating resentencing hearings for the roughly 500 inmates in Pennsylvania prisons who are serving mandatory life without parole sentences handed down while they were juveniles. While several U.S. jurisdictions have started hearing their cases, many across the state have put the issue on hold pending an upcoming state Supreme Court ruling they hope will resolve some lingering questions.
In its January ruling in Montgomery v. Louisiana, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that its ban on mandatory life without parole sentences for juveniles should be applied retroactively. The ruling essentially meant that the nearly 500 inmates in Pennsylvania and thousands across the country serving the unconstitutional sentence would need to be resentenced.
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