Cheryl Armstrong, Petitioner v. the People of the State of Colorado, Respondent

Summary

The court held that constitutional protections concerning juvenile life-without-parole sentences do not apply to Armstrong's aggregate ninety-six-year sentence imposed through consecutive terms for multiple offenses. Because those protections were inapplicable, the court affirmed the judgment below without deciding whether complicity-based second-degree murder is a nonhomicide offense. Justice Gabriel, concurring in the judgment, would recognize protection for de facto life-without-parole sentences but would affirm because Armstrong is eligible for parole at about age sixty.