Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2016-02-25 02:25:25.042043+00
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA
                              WESTERN DISTRICT

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA,                  :   No. 360 WAL 2015
                                               :
                     Respondent                :
                                               :   Petition for Allowance of Appeal from
                                               :   the Unpublished Judgment Order and
              v.                               :   Order of the Superior Court at No. 456
                                               :   WDA 2015 exited August 5, 2015,
                                               :   affirming the Order of the Allegheny
MICHAEL MCMILLAN,                              :   County Court of Common Pleas at No.
                                               :   CP-02-CR-0006930-2007 exited March
                     Petitioner                :   3, 2015

                                         ORDER

PER CURIAM

       AND NOW, this 24th 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 (2012).

As a result of the recent holding by that Court that Miller must be applied retroactively

by the States, see Montgomery v. Louisiana, 2016 WL 280758 (U.S. Jan. 25, 2016), the

Superior Court’s order is VACATED, and the case is REMANDED for further

proceedings consistent with Montgomery.

       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)(1)(iii).

       Mr. Justice Eakin did not participate in the consideration or decision of this

matter.