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

Summary

The court affirmed the denial of Armstrong's post-conviction challenge, holding that the constitutional rules governing juvenile life-without-parole sentences do not apply to her aggregate ninety-six-year term-of-years sentence. Because that holding resolved the case, the court did not decide whether second-degree murder under a complicity theory is a non-homicide offense. Justice Gabriel, concurring in the judgment, would have applied those rules to de facto life-without-parole sentences but would still have affirmed because Armstrong was eligible for parole at about age sixty.