ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled that a convicted killer was too young to be sentenced to life without parole.
Media outlets report Georgia Supreme Court justices upheld 23-year-old Robert Veal's murder conviction on Monday, but tossed his sentence.
Month before Veal was sentenced in 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Miller v. Alabama that mandatory sentences without the possibility of parole for minors who commit murder were unconstitutional.
Veal was 17 when a judge sentenced him to life without parole plus six additional life terms, plus 40 years. He was a minor when he and two other gang members, known as the "Jack Boys," set out on a crime spree in the Atlanta area that included robbing and shooting people.
Veal's case will return to court for re-sentencing.
