State v. Mullins, 2025 UT 2 (Utah 2025)

From the introduction:

“Morris Mullins pled guilty to aggravated murder and was sentenced to life without parole (LWOP). Because he was seventeen years old when he committed the crime, this is a juvenile life without parole (JLWOP) sentence. Now, at age forty and having already spent more than two decades in prison, Mullins challenges his sentence as unconstitutional. He brings seven state and federal constitutional challenges, among them that his sentence was cruel and unusual in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution and article I, section 9 of the Utah Constitution.”