Does this Court's decision in Jones v. Mississippi mandate that states must strictly apply that any discretion in sentencing a juvenile to life without parole (or its functional equivalent) is all that is required for the sentence to be constitutional, and no consideration of youth and its attendant characteristics is required if the sentence is not strictly mandatory?

QUESTION PRESENTED 1. Does this Court’s decision in Jones v. Mississippi, 593 U.S.___,___, 141 S. Ct. 1307, 1320, 209 L. Ed. 2d 390 (2021) mandate that states must strictly apply that any discretion in sentencing a juvenile to life without parole (or its functional equivalent), is all that is required for the sentence to be constitutional, and no consideration of youth and its attendant characteristics is required if the sentence is not strictly mandatory. ii