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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Budd reverses a sentence of life without parole for a defendant convicted of murder. The defendant was 18 when he committed the crime and 18-to-20-year-olds — emerging adults — are more neurologically similar to 17-year-olds than to people age 22 and older. So even though an 18-year-old is an adult, a statute determining that sentencing juveniles to life without parole constitutes cruel and unusual punishment also applies to emerging adults. Vacated.
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