the neighbor back to his trailer, where all three smoked marijuana and consumed alcohol. When the neighbor passed out, Miller stole his wallet, splitting the $300 in the wallet with his friend. Miller then tried to put the wallet back in the neighbor’s pocket, but the neighbor woke up and grabbed Miller by the throat. The friend hit the neighbor with a baseball bat, and, once released from the neighbor’s grasp, Miller grabbed the bat and repeatedly struck the neighbor. The juveniles left but returned to cover up evidence of their crime. They lit two fires, and the neighbor eventually died from his injuries and smoke inhalation. Both Miller and Jackson were tried as adults, convicted, and sentenced to the mandatory sentence of lif . 2954, 57 L.Ed.2d 973 (1978) (plurality opinion) (<HOLDING>). The Miller Court concluded that these two
holding that a trial court must not preclude the jury from considering any aspect of the defendants character or circumstances as a mitigating factor holding that juries may not be precluded from considering as a mitigating factor any aspect of a defendants character or record and any of the circumstances of the offense that the defendant proffers emphasis in original holding that a sentencer may not refuse to consider as a matter of law any relevant mitigating evidence holding that a sentencer must not be precluded from considering  any of the circumstances of the offense that the defendant proffers holding that sentencing scheme that permitted a limited range of mitigating evidence was unconstitutional because the eighth and fourteenth amendments require that the sentencer  not be precluded from considering as a mitigating factor any aspect of a defendants character or record and any of the circumstances of the offense that the defendant proffers as a basis for a sentence less than death