Whether North Carolina has violated the Eighth Amendment by creating a de facto mandatory life-without-parole sentencing regime for juvenile offenders by invariably considering the facts of the juvenile's crime to be dispositive

Whether North Carolina, in conflict with this Court’s precedents and those of other states, has violated the Eighth Amendment by creating a de facto mandatory life-without -parole sentencing regime for juvenile offenders by invariably considering the facts of the juvenile’s crime to be dispositive.