STATE v. CONNER

No. 64A21.

873 S.E.2d 339 (2022)

2022-NCSC-79

STATE of North Carolina, v. Riley Dawson CONNER.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

Filed June 17, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joshua H. Stein , Attorney General, by Kimberly N. Callahan , Special Deputy Attorney General, for the State.

Glenn Gerding , Appellate Defender, by David W. Andrews , Assistant Appellate Defender, for defendant-appellant.

Disability Rights North Carolina, by Lisa Grafstein , Raleigh, Susan H. Pollitt , and Luke Woollard , for Center for Child and Family Health, National Association of Social Workers, including its North Carolina affiliate, and Disability Rights North Carolina, amici curiae.

Christopher J. Heaney , Emily A. Gibson , and Margaret P. Teich , for North Carolina Advocates for Justice, amicus curiae.


¶ 1 The Supreme Court of the United States has determined that it is unconstitutional to sentence a juvenile defendant to a term of life without parole without consideration of the juvenile's age and attendant circumstances, and that such a sentence is constitutionally impermissible for the majority of juvenile offenders—...

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