Whether the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460, 132 S.Ct 2455 (2012), Montgomery v. Louisiana, 577 U.S. _ ,136 S. Ct. 718 (2016), and Tatum v. Arizona, 580 U. S. _ _, 137 S. Ct. 11 (2016), permit a juvenile convicted of a homicide offense to be sentenced to the functional equivalent of life without parole.

Whether a de facto sentence of life without parole for a juvenile denies the offender a meaningful opportunity to obtain release based on demonstrated maturity and rehabilitation demanded by the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution in violation of Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460, 132 S.Ct. 2455 (2012), Montgomery v. Louisiana, 577 U.S. _ _,136 S. Ct. 718, 193 L. Ed. 2d 599 (2016), and Tatum v. Arizona, 580 U. S. _ , 137 S. Ct. 11 (2016).

Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a juvenile convicted of a homicide offense to be sentenced to the functional equivalent of life without parole