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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Wednesday that juvenile murderers who were subject to mandatory life sentences without the possibility of parole will not be resentenced if their cases were final before June 2012. The US Supreme Court [official website] ruled [JURIST report] last year in Miller v. Alabama that the Eighth Amendment [text], a bar on the infliction of cruel and unusual punishment, "forbids a sentencing scheme that mandates life in prison without possibility of parole for juvenile offenders." Applying this precedent to the case of Ian Cunningham, a man serving life in prison [Morning...