Michael John Bever v. Oklahoma
DueProcess Punishment
Whether a judge's decision to sentence a juvenile offender to consecutive terms is exempt from Eighth Amendment review
QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether a judge’s decision to sentence a juvenile offender to consecutive terms is exempt from Eighth Amendment review. 2. Whether a judge’s decision to run Petitioner’s sentences consecutively for an aggregate no-parole term of 215 years violates the Eighth Amendment when a jury has made a specific finding that the State had not proven Petitioner to be permanently incorrigible and irreparably corrupt. 3. Whether — given the jury’s finding that the State had not proven Petitioner to be permanently incorrigible and irreparably corrupt — the Sixth Amendment requires Petitioner’s sentences to run concurrently in order to provide him with a meaningful opportunity for release. i