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U.S. Supreme Court weighs scope of ruling that limited juvenile sentences
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday grappled with how to decide a convicted Mississippi murderer's challenge to his sentence of life in prison without parole for a crime he committed at age 15 - a sentence he argued was unconstitutional based on a 2012 ruling by the justices. The court heard arguments by teleconference in an appeal brought by Brett Jones, now 31, who was convicted of fatally stabbing his grandfather in 2004 in a dispute involving Jones' girlfriend. The appeal seeks to expand the reach of a 2012 Supreme Court ruling in which the justices decided that mandatory life sentences without parole in homicide cases involving juvenile killers violated the U.S. Constitution Eighth Amen

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