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Children Are Different: Bridging the Gap Between Rhetoric and Reality

Current CLR member Ioana Tchoukleva examines the Supreme Court’s decision in Miller v. Alabama, which prohibited mandatory sentences of life without parole for juvenile homicide offenders under the Eighth Amendment, and discusses the implications of the Court’s holding on the future of juvenile rights. This Case Note is one of seven written by California Law Review members for CLR Circuit’s first Case Note program.