The Case Of Miller Vs. Alabama

oshua Haas

October 6, 2014 Intro to Criminal Justice Miller Vs. Alabama

On June 25, 2012 the Supreme Court had rule 5 to 4 that Miller was guilty to committing murder and was sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole. On that day in June the court had struck down all of the statues that was requires for a child under the age of 18 to be sentenced life in prison. At, the time of the crime Miller was only 14 years old. July 15, 2003 Evan Miller and His Friend Colby Smith where at Evan Millers house when neighbor Cole Cannon walked to his house and asked for some food. When Miller said we don’t have any food Cannon left, miller and smith went to Cannons house and rooted around for drugs and whatever else. When they

When firefighters showed up and the police interview Miller they knew it was an “obvious Suspicious”. The police handcuffed Miller and read him his Minor Miranda rights. When asked about the event that happened that night Miller denied all doings of burning down the trailer but admitted to stealing the $300. After doing further more investigating they finally could convict Miller and Smith of aggravated murder in the first degree. And charged with a course of

They can get their high school degree and even maybe a college degree just by attending the classes that the prison offers. Evan miller only being 14 years old at the time in July of 2003 walking over to his neighbor’s house after he came over and asked for food then passed out in his own home, Evan and the other minor Colby went to his house brutally beat him and then proceeded to burn down his mobile home. After the emergency crews showed up it was anything but obvious what had happen. After a 5 to 4 vote in the supreme courts miller was sentence to a mandatory life sentence in the Alabama state prison without the possibility of parole. Miller is currently spending his mandatory life without parole in the Alabama state