(12) Trials are lessons in civics, and acquittals are the price the society pays for taking so seriously the obligation that the government has to be able to demonstrate guilt convincingly in open court for a defendant to be convicted. As one commentator characterizes it, criminal adjudication ...
mien's rehabilitation, the circuit court initially granted Damien a resentencing hearing under Miller where these facts could be considered in reducing his sen- tence, but the appellate courts reversed based on the ruling of the Alabama Su- preme Court that Miller does not apply retroactively. Se...