State v. Link

Summary

The court held that the defendant’s state constitutional claim was not preserved for review and declined to address it. It further held that the federal individualized-sentencing requirement applies only to juvenile life-without-parole sentences or their functional equivalents, and that Oregon’s 2001 life sentence with a 30-year minimum and a later parole-conversion opportunity was neither. The court therefore upheld the sentence and the circuit court’s ruling; no separate opinions were issued.