Mr.Simms was tried as an adult and sentenced to six life sentences plus 124 years without the possibility of parole. Emphasizing Mr. Simms’s exemplary behavior and his suitability for parole, the Milbank team submitted a packet of support to the Virginia Parole Board advocating for Mr. Simms’s release. Weeks after Mr. Simms’s release, on February 24, 2020, Virginia joined 22 other states and the District of Columbia in passing legislation ending life-without-parole sentences for juveniles. Despite a succession of Supreme Court cases establishing that mandatory life sentences without parole for juveniles violate the Eighth Amendment except in extremely rare cases, over 1,000 people sentenced as juveniles are still in prison serving life sentences with no chance of parole.