Wendy Kelley v. Ulonzo Gordon, Appellee

Summary

The court affirmed the order granting habeas relief to a prisoner who was under eighteen when he committed capital murder and had received a mandatory life-without-parole sentence. The court held that fundamental fairness and evenhanded justice required applying the juvenile-sentencing rule retroactively to Gordon because an identically situated Arkansas prisoner had already received a new sentencing hearing. The court did not reach the circuit court's separate equal-protection and due-process rulings.