IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA
WESTERN DISTRICT
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, : No. 4 WAL 2018
:
Respondent :
: Petition for Allowance of Appeal from
: the Order of the Superior Court
v. :
:
:
ANTHONY MACHICOTE, :
:
Petitioner :
ORDER
PER CURIAM
AND NOW, this 22nd day of May, 2018, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is
GRANTED. The issue, as stated by Petitioner, is:
Whether, in order to comply with Miller and its progeny, a court sentencing a
juvenile defendant for a crime for which life without parole is an available sentence
must review and consider on the record the Miller factors adopted by this Court in
Batts I, regardless whether the defendant is ultimately sentenced to life without
parole.