Prof. Feld Cited by US Supreme Court in Juvenile Sentencing Ruling

The United States Supreme Court in Graham v. Florida,--- S.Ct. ----, 2010 WL 1946731 (U.S.), held that a state may not impose a sentence of life without parole (LWOP) for a nonhomicide crime committed by a juvenile offender. Professor Barry Feld, a leading scholar of juvenile justice, has written extensively that states formally should recognize youthfulness as a mitigating factor in sentencing juveniles in criminal court. The Court cited one of Feld's articles, "Unmitigated Punishment: Adolescent Criminal Responsibility and LWOP Sentences," 10 J. Law & Family Studies 11(2007) in their opinion.