Cite as 2013 Ark. 175
SUPREME COURT OF ARKANSAS
No. 09-145
| KUNTRELL JACKSON APPELLANT V. LARRY NORRIS, DIRECTOR, ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONAPPELLEE
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Opinion Delivered: April 25, 2013
APPEAL FROM THE JEFFERSON COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT, [NO. CV-08-28-2] HONORABLE ROBERT WYATT, JR., JUDGE DENIAL OF PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS REVERSED; WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS ISSUED; REMANDED TO THE JEFFERSON COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT WITH INSTRUCTIONS. |
JOSEPHINE LINKER HART, Associate Justice
This court affirmed Kuntrell Jackson's capital-murder and aggravated-robbery convictions and his sentence of life imprisonment without parole. Jackson v. State, 359 Ark. 87, 194 S.W.3d 757 (2004). This court subsequently affirmed the Jefferson County Circuit Court's denial of Jackson's petition for writ of habeas corpus, concluding that even though he was only fourteen years old at the time he committed the crimes, Jackson's mandatory sentence of life imprisonment without parole did not violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. Jackson v. Norris, 2011 Ark. 49, 378 S.W.3d 103, cert. granted, ___ U.S. ___, 132 S. Ct. 548 (2011), rev’d and remanded sub nom. Miller v. Alabama, 132 S. Ct. 2455 (2012). After granting certiorari, the United States Supreme Court
