Case Name: COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Respondent v. Ricky Lee OLDS, Petitioner
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 2016-02-25
Citations: 133 A.3d 3
Docket Number: No. 462 WAL 2015
Parties: COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Respondent v. Ricky Lee OLDS, Petitioner.
Judges: Justices EAKIN and DONOHUE did not participate in the consideration or, decision of this matter.
Reporter: West's Atlantic Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 133
Pages: 3–3

Head Matter:
COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Respondent v. Ricky Lee OLDS, Petitioner.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
Feb. 25, 2016.

Opinion:
ORDER
PER CURIAM.
AND NOW, this 25th day of February, 2016, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED on the issue of whether Petitioner's sentence violates the prohibition against mandatory life sentences for juvenile offenders announced by the Supreme Court of the United States in Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. —, 132 S.Ct. 2455, 183 L.Ed.2d 407 (2012). As a result of the recent holding by that Court that Miller must be applied retroactively by the States, see Montgomery v. Louisiana, — U.S. —, 136 S.Ct. 718, 193 L.Ed.2d 599 (2016), the Superior Court's order is VACATED, and the case is REMANDED for further proceedings .consistent with Montgomery. Allocatur is DENIED in all other respects.
.To the extent necessary, leave is to be granted.,to amend the post-conviction petition to assert the jurisdictional provision of the Post Conviction Relief Act extending to the recognition of- constitutional rights by the Supreme Court of the United States which it. deems to be retroactive. See 42 Pa.C.S. § 9545(b)(l)(iii).
Petitioner's Petition for .Permission to File Amended Petition for- Allowance of Appeal is DENIED. .
Justices EAKIN and DONOHUE did not participate in the consideration or, decision of this matter.