# Prentis Cordell Jackson v. State of Minnesota

> Supreme Court of Minnesota · August 3, 2016 · 883 N.W.2d 272

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9835249

## Case

- **Full name:** Prentis Cordell JACKSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Minnesota, Respondent
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Minnesota
- **Decided:** August 3, 2016
- **Citations:** 883 N.W.2d 272; 2016 Minn. LEXIS 485; 2016 WL 4126394
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Stras
- **Judges:** Stras, Anderson
- **Cited by:** 12 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that because of the passage of 10 years and a lack of a record on the juvenile offender’s youthful characteristics, a fair and meaningful Miller/Montgomery hearing was not possible and remanding to the district court for imposition of a sentence of life imprisonment wi…

## Opinion text

STRAS, Justice
(concurring).
In accordance with my dissenting opinion in State v. Ali, 855 N.W.2d 235, 267 (Minn.2014), I agree with the court that Jackson is entitled to be resentenced to a term of life imprisonment with the possibility of release. Based on my dissent in Ali , however, I cannot fully join the court’s opinion because I believe that every juvenile offender facing a mandatory term of life imprisonment is entitled to such a remedy and that partial severance, not revival, fully resolves the constitutional defects in Minnesota’s current first-degree murder statutes. See, e.g., United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220, 314-26 , 125 S.Ct. 738 , 160 L.Ed.2d 621 (2005) (Thomas, J., dissenting in part) (discussing partial severance). Accordingly, I concur only in the judgment of the court.

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