High Court Split On Whether It Even Can Hear Juvenile Sentencing Case Now

BuzzFeed - Much of the time in Tuesday's arguments in Henry Montgomery's case ? which challenges a mandatory life sentence he received for a murder he committed at 17 ? was spent on arguments over whether the justices could even hear the case. People gather outside the Supreme Court in Washington, DC on June 26, 2015 after its historic decision on marriage equality. The court began its new term earlier this month. Mladen Antonov / AFP / Getty Images WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court may not ultimately decide whether its ruling in 2012 that ended automatic sentences of life without parole for juveniles applies retroactively to cases fully decided before the ruling was issued. When the Supreme Court agreed to hear Henry Montgomery's case — which raises the question of whether its 2012 ruling in Miller v. Alabama applies retroactively to his case, decided in the 1960s — the justices also asked the parties to respond t