KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Missouri’s parole review board violates the constitutional rights of juveniles sentenced to life without parole, a federal appeals court said in an opinion released Friday.
The case was brought by four Missouri inmates who were sentenced as juveniles to life without parole.
The parole board’s practices deprives inmates “of their Eighth Amendment right to a meaningful opportunity to obtain release based upon demonstrated maturity and rehabilitation,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed.