Guy Lucero, Petitioner v. the People of the State of Colorado, Respondent

Summary

The court affirmed the judgment upholding Lucero’s aggregate eighty-four-year sentence for offenses committed when he was fifteen. It held that constitutional limits on life-without-parole sentences for juveniles do not apply to consecutive term-of-years sentences imposed for multiple convictions, and that the court of appeals properly treated Lucero’s constitutional challenge as arising under Rule 35(c). Justice Gabriel, concurring in the judgment, would have applied the constitutional principles to de facto life-without-parole sentences but concluded that Lucero had a meaningful opportunity for parole.