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Criminal Law: Sentencing-Life Imprisonment
Staff Report//April 20, 2020//
Where a defendant, who was sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for the first-degree murders of his grandparents when he was 19, challenged Section 565.020 as unconstitutional as applied to him, the court is bound by U.S. Supreme Court precedent explicitly delineating offenders 18 years and older as adults, and the judgment is affirmed.
Judgment is affirmed.
State v. Barnett (MLW No. 74876/Case No. SC98268 – 11 pages) (Supreme Court of Missouri, Draper III, J.; all concur) Appealed from circuit court, St. Louis County, Walsh III, J. (Rosemary E. Percival, Kansas City, Missouri, for appellant) (Evan J. Buchheim, Jefferson City, for respondent).
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