Montgomery v. Louisiana

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling announcing that the Court's 2012 decision in the Miller v. Alabama ruling applies retroactively. The 2012 ruling announced that laws providing a mandatory life-without-parole sentence for juvenile murderers whose crimes would carry a death sentence if they were adults was unconstitutional, but the Court did not apply the law to older cases. CJLF joined the case to argue that the Court's ruling announced a change in procedure rather than substance and that the petitioner received a fair trial and was properly sentenced for his crime in 1963.