Whether, for a juvenile offender who committed multiple offenses during a single course of conduct, none of them homicide, the Eighth Amendment forbids an aggregate term-of-years sentence that is not 'life' in name, but is so long as to deny the youthful offender a meaningful opportunity for release

QUESTION PRESENTED FOR REVIEW : In the landmark decision of Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48 (2010), this Court held that, for a juvenile offender who did not commit homicide, the Eighth Amendment forbids a sentence of life without possibility of parole, and that such individual must be provided a “meaningful opportunity to obtain release based on demonstrated maturity and rehabilitation.” Graham, 560 U.S. at 74-75. In so holding, this Court reaffirmed the observations it made in Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (2005), about the fundamental differences between juveniles and adults in terms of culpability and rehabilitative potential, and also reaffirmed the boundary between homicide and serious nonhomicide crimes, which lack the severity and “irrevocability” of murder. Graham, 560 U.S. at 68-69. The question presented in this case, which Graham left open, is whether, for a juvenile offender who committed multiple offenses during a single course of conduct, none of them homicide, the Eighth Amendment forbids an aggregate term-of-years sentence that is not “life” in name, but is so long as to deny the youthful offender a meaningful opportunity for release. i