What is the test for sentencing a child to a life sentence in a homicide case?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from In re Wilson, 182 Cal.Rptr.3d 774, 233 Cal.App.4th 544 (Cal. App. 2015):
whose crime reflects irreparable corruption. [Citations.] Although we do not foreclose a sentencer's ability to make that judgment in homicide cases, we require it to take into account how children are different, and how those differences counsel against irrevocably sentencing them to a lifetime in prison. (Miller v. Alabama, supra, 567 U.S. at pp. , , 132 S.Ct. at pp. 2464, 2469.)
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