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" Before we leave The Court for the day, we should pause for a moment and study the dissent of Justice Samuel Alito is the case of Miller v Alabama  in which The Court decided that it was unconstitutional to require mandatory sentences be meted out to juvenile offenders to life without parole. Remember, it was Alito&amp;#039;s nomination that was so damned important that the Gang of 14 had to meet to preserve civility and bipartisanship until the Bush administration was over. In brief, Alito apparently would ship 12-year olds off to Pelican Bay because, well, they might grow up to be a criminal anyway.... The two (carefully selected) cases before us concern very young defendants, and de\u00ADspite the brutality and evident depravity exhibited by at least one of the petitioners, it is hard not to feel sympathy for a 14-year-old sentenced to life without the possibility of release. But no one should be confused by the particulars of the two cases before us. The category of murderers that the Court delicately calls &amp;quot;children&amp;quot; (murderers under the age of 18) consists overwhelmingly of young men who are fast approaching the legal age of adulthood. Evan Miller and Kuntrell Jackson are anomalies; much more typical are murderers like Donald Roper, who committed a brutal thrill-killing just nine months shy of his 18th birthday.  Yes, teenage thrill-killers are &amp;quot;much more typical.&amp;quot; Sam Alito: Supreme Court Justice from American International Pictures. (UPDATE -- Original post corrected thanks to commenter Glenn Edwards who is, as Shoeless Joe says in John Sayles&amp;#039;s Eight Men Out, some kind of lawyerin&amp;#039; bird.) "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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