Did Kentucky violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments when it allowed a youth who was 17 when his crimes occurred to be sentenced to life in prison plus 50 years based on an involuntary plea to a minimum 20 years that contained a maximum sentence "hammer clause" which operated as an unreasonable penalty that was grossly disproportionate for relatively minor, mitigated infractions without a meaningful, demonstrated inquiry as in Miller and Montgomery into whether this harsh sentence is appropriate for this youth under all the circumstances of his case?
Did Kentucky violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments when it allowed a youth who was 17 when his crimes occurred to be sentenced to life in prison plus 50 years based on an involuntary plea to a minimum 20 years that contained a maximum sentence 'hammer clause' which operated as an unreasonable penalty that was grossly disproportionate for relatively minor, mitigated infractions without a meaningful, demonstrated inquiry as in Miller and Montgomery into whether this harsh sentence is appropriate for this youth under all the circumstances of his case?