173242P.pdf   09/05/2018  Steve Wright, Jr.  v.  United States
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  17-3242
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Smith, Chief Judge, and Wollman, Circuit 
   Judge] 
   Prisoner case - Habeas. Wright's life sentence for conspiracy was based on 
   conspiratorial conduct which extended well into his adult years under and 
   the sentence was imposed under an advisory guidelines regime that allowed 
   the district court to consider his early participation as a juvenile, as 
   well as other relevant mitigating factors; thus the procedural element of 
   the new substantive rule of constitutional law made retroactive in 
   Montgomery v. Louisiana, 136 S.Ct 718 (2016) does not apply, and the court 
   did not err in denying successive habeas relief on this claim; sentence of 
   life plus 60 years did not violate the Eighth Amendment; the district 
   court did not abuse its discretion in denying more comprehensive 
   resentencing after it vacated Wright's mandatory life sentence on one 
   count under Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012) and resentenced him to 
   15 years on the count.