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Life Sentence for Failure to Comply with Registration Requirement May Violate Eighth Amendment
By Michael Brodheim
Finding that a "Three strikes" sentence of 28 years to life imprisonment was so grossly disproportionate to an "entirely passive, harmless, and technical violation of the registration law" that it violates the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment, and that the California Court of Appeal's ...
Finding that a "Three strikes" sentence of 28 years to life imprisonment was so grossly disproportionate to an "entirely passive, harmless, and technical violation of the registration law" that it violates the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment, and that the California Court of Appeal's ...
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