Court Opinion

ID: 4813749
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-08-21 15:55:43.450128+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:10:44.582843
License: Public Domain

JOHNSON, C.J.,
would grant. In State v. Tate, 2012-2763 (La.11/5/13), 130 So.3d 829, this. court held that Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. -, 132 S.Ct. 2455, 183 L.Ed.2d 407 (2012), does not retroactively apply to juvenile offenders whose life sentences were handed down before the Supreme Court issued its opinion. In my view, Miller announced a new rule of criminal procedure that is substantive, and consequently should apply retroactively.