# Commonwealth v. Okoro

> Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · March 23, 2015 · 471 Mass. 51

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9806519

## Case

- **Full name:** Commonwealth vs. Emmanuel Okoro
- **Court:** Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
- **Decided:** March 23, 2015
- **Citations:** 471 Mass. 51; 26 N.E.3d 1092
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurring in part by Spina
- **Judges:** Gants, Spina, Cordy, Botsford, Duffly, Lenk, Hines
- **Cited by:** 30 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- explaining that, when read as a whole, “Miller’s requirement of individualized sentencing was limited to instances where a state seeks to impose life in prison without parole eligibility on a juvenile” (emphasis in original)

## Opinion text

Spina, J.
(concurring in part and dissenting in part, with whom Cordy, J., joins). I agree with the opinion of the court except for part l.b, “Due process and art. 30,” ante at 62. As to that section, I dissent for the reasons stated in my dissent in Diatchenko v. District Attorney for the Suffolk Dist., 471 Mass. 12, 33-48 (2015).

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