Henry Montgomery, Petitioner
Mark D. Plaisance, Counsel of Record
In 1963, Henry Montgomery was convicted of murdering Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Deputy Sheriff Charles Hurt, for which he received an automatic death sentence. At the time of his arrest, Montgomery was a 17-year-old high school junior. In 1966, the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled his jury was biased and overturned his conviction. In a new trial in 1969, Montgomery was again convicted and received a sentence of life in prison without parole. Montgomery spent the next 43 years in prison without incident. When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that mandatory life without parole sentences for criminals age 17 or…
