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BIrthdate
This day, 14 years, three weeks earlier than the murder charges is the birthdate of Petitioner Jackson. http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/cert/10-9647 -
Date of Crime
On November 18, 1999, Jackson was involved in a crime in which him and two kids. They were walking through a housing project and they began discussing the idea of robbing the store. Jackson found out shields was hiding a sawed off shot gun in his jacket. They walked into the store but Jackson waited outside, Shields threatened the clerk to give them money but the clerk wouldn't so Shields shot her as Jackson walked in. Jackson was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. -
Convicted of MURDER
On July 19, 2003, Jackson was convicted of capital felony-murder and aggravated robbery, The judge chose to ignore his age and bar him for life without parole.
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Appeal
On appeal, the Arkansas Supreme Court affirmed the conviction. Jackson was then sent to jail for life. http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/cert/10-9647 -
Habeus Corpus to Circuit Court
On January 8, 2008, Jackson filed for habeas corpus to the Jefferson County Circuit Court following the USSupreme Court’s decision in Roper v. Simmons, (2005), which ruled that the Eighth Amendment prohibits the death penalty on juvenile offenders.
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Arkansas Supreme Court
Jackson then appealed to the Arkansas Supreme Court and argued that his sentence went against the constitution for cruel and unusual punishment and violated his rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. -
Graham V. Florida
While his appeal was pending, the Supreme Court decided Graham v. Florida, , which also involved the Eighth Amendment also prohibits life-without-parole sentence placed on juveniles accused of non-homicide offenses.
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Denied By The Supreme Court
The Arkansas Supreme Court ends up rejecting Jackson’s petition because, Jackson was not sentenced to death and Roper was,, at the same time, unlike Graham, Jackson committed a homicide offense even though Jackson was not the triggerman and had no intent to kill.
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New Case U.S. Supreme Court
On November 7, 2011The US Supreme Court granted certiorari on and will hear this case together with Miller v. Alabama. -
Decisions to be made
In this case, the US Supreme Court will decide if the Eighth Amendment protects young juveniles from life-without-parole sentences for homicide offenses. http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/cert/10-9647 -
Second to last final view of case
US Supreme court decides that it's unfair for children to be punished of such big offenses when they could have so much potential in the future. -
US Supreme Court Final Ruling
On June 25, 2012, in a 5-4 opinion, the US Supreme Court ruled that the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment takes away the punishment for juveniles to not have the possibility of parole. http://www.apa.org/about/offices/ogc/amicus/miller-hobbs.aspx
