Tyrone D. Morant v. Jason Lewis, Superintendent, Southeast Correctional Center
DueProcess Punishment HabeasCorpus
1. Does the Eighth Amendment, as interpreted in Miller and Montgomery, require juvenile defendants, who had previously been illegally sentenced to mandatory terms of life imprisonment without parole for murder, receive adversarial resentencing proceedings.
2. Do Missouri's parole laws and procedures, as modified by S.B. 590 to permit juveniles serving mandatory life sentences without the possibility of parole to request a parole hearing after serving twenty-five years, violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments by failing to provide juvenile offenders a meaningful and realistic opportunity for release.
3. Do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require that a jury must find beyond a reasonable doubt that a juvenile's crimes reflect "irreparable corruption" and were not the result of "transient immaturity" before a sentence of life without parole may be imposed.
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires juvenile defendants who received mandatory life without parole sentences to receive adversarial resentencing proceedings