{"id":72,"date":"2017-09-27T12:46:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T16:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tampacriminallawyer.net\/?p=72"},"modified":"2026-01-09T03:33:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:33:27","slug":"florida-court-remands-case-highlighting-effect-juvenile-offender-status-sentencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.criminalattorneytampa.net\/blog\/florida-court-remands-case-highlighting-effect-juvenile-offender-status-sentencing\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Court Remands Case, Highlighting Effect of Juvenile Offender Status on Sentencing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Supreme Court in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/567\/10-9646\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miller v. Alabama<\/a><\/em> held that the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits sentencing guidelines that require life imprisonment without parole for juvenile offenders. In response, the Florida legislature passed a new set of guidelines for sentencing people convicted of Florida juvenile crimes. The guidelines ensure that juveniles have any long-term sentences reviewed by a judicial body.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new framework, the status of an offender as either an adult or a juvenile at the time the crime was committed is a crucial threshold question. Florida\u2019s Third District Court of Appeals recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3dca.flcourts.org\/Opinions\/3D16-2742.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remanded<\/a> a case to determine whether the defendant was a juvenile at the time the crime was committed.<\/p>\n<p>The defendant appealed his conviction because there were discrepancies in his age. The defendant\u2019s arrest affidavit showed his date of birth as December 3, 1963. However, the Florida Department of Corrections listed his date of birth as December 3, 1962. The offenses for the defendant\u2019s crimes ranged from March to May 1981. The appeals court remanded the case to the trial court to determine the defendant\u2019s correct date of birth. If the defendant was born in 1963, the defendant could be eligible for relief under the Florida Supreme Court decision in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/law.justia.com\/cases\/florida\/supreme-court\/2016\/sc14-193.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Atwell v. Florida<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.criminalattorneytampa.net\/blog\/florida-court-remands-case-highlighting-effect-juvenile-offender-status-sentencing\/#more-72\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Supreme Court in Miller v. Alabama held that the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits sentencing guidelines that require life imprisonment without parole for juvenile offenders. In response, the Florida legislature passed a new set of guidelines for sentencing people convicted of Florida juvenile crimes. The guidelines ensure that juveniles have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defenses","category-juvenile"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Juvenile Status and Sentencing Effects<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Discover how being a juvenile offender can change sentencing in Florida and why age, growth, and history matter to courts.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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