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justice alana kagan is a very new justice, but she had a very important opinion this morning, she had a decision that struck down mandatory life terms for juvenile offenders. there's a law in several states that says on these circumstances, this person must be sentenced to life without parole. and what the court held by 5- 4, justice anthony kennedy joining the fourth liberals said that it is unconstitutional for a law to say a juvenile convicted of murder must automatically serve life without parole. the jury has to make a separate provision about what the individual should serve li...