Montgomery v. Louisiana. Docket No. Op. Below Argument Opinion Vote Author Term; 14-280: La. Oct 13, 2015: Jan 25, 2016: 6-3: Kennedy: OT 2015: Holding: 1) The Supreme Court has jurisdiction to decide ...

Justice Kennedy wrote the majority opinion in Montgomery v. Louisiana (2016). This case held that the rule in Miller was retroactive. Once again, incorrigibility played no role in the litigation.

Henry Montgomery, the petitioner in Montgomery v. Louisiana , whom the court characterized as a model prisoner, was resentenced to a parole-eligible sentence in 2017.

Petitioner is Henry Montgomery. In 1963, Montgomery killed Charles Hurt, a deputy sheriff in East Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Montgomery was 17 years old at the time of the crime. He was convicted of ...

This morning, during arguments in Montgomery v. Louisiana, we hear a good deal from the Supreme Court about the forced incarceration of witches and lots more about the eternal raging war between ...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday in Montgomery v.Louisiana that its ban on mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juvenile offenders also applied retroactively, making more than 2,000 ...

On Wednesday, Henry Montgomery walked out of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, popularly known as Angola, after almost 58 years. To put those 58 years in context, remember that in 1963, this was a ...

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Since Montgomery v. Louisiana (2016), about 800 people nationwide have been freed as a result of the ruling. Montgomery’s parole applications were denied twice, most recently in 2019, ...

The Louisiana parole board in April will rehear the case of the 72-year-old Baton Rouge man central to the 2016 U.S. Supreme Court decision on juveniles sentenced to life without ...

Henry Montgomery, 75, left, waves a 'hello' to media members, as he and Andrew Hundley, right, executive director of the Louisiana Parole Project, prepare to speak with them outside the gate after ...

Petitioner Montgomery was 17 years old in 1963, when he killed a deputy sheriff in Louisiana. The jury returned a verdict of “guilty without capital punishment,” which carried an automatic ...