Whether the imposition of a mandatory 40-year sentence on a juvenile convicted of homicide violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments' prohibition on cruel and unusual punishments

QUESTION PRESENTED Rashad Taylor was resentenced to a sentence of life imprisonment, with a minimum mandatory term of forty-years, under Miller! in 2017. Mr. Taylor received the minimum mandatory term of forty-years, which exposed him to the sentence of life imprisonment, because he is one of two defendants in the State of Florida who entered a plea of guilty when he was a juvenile. The questions presented are: 1. Does imposition of a mandatory sentence of forty years on a juvenile convicted of a homicide — a sentence imposed pursuant to a statutory scheme that categorically precludes consideration of the offender's juvenile characteristics aud other mitigating circumstances — violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments’ prohibition on cruel and unusual punishments? 2. Does the imposition of an increased statutory mandatory minimum viclate the Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, if the fact that increased the statutory mandatory minimum was found solely by a sentencing jndge, rather than by a jury or admitted by a defendant? ' Miller vy. Alabama, 132 S.Ct. 2455 (2012), i