OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has let stand a Nebraska Supreme Court ruling ordering resentencing for a man who was a teenager when he was given life in prison without a chance for parole. The move paves the way for more than 20 people sentenced to life as juveniles to get new sentencing hearings.

The U.S. Supreme Court move came Monday in the cases of Douglas Mantich, sentenced for his role in a 1993 gang-related shooting death in Omaha.

The Nebraska Supreme Court ordered in February that Mantich and two others sentenced to life as juveniles — Eric Ramirez and Juan Castaneda — be resentenced, citing a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that teenagers cannot be locked up for life without the chance of parole.