disproportionate-sentencing

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
20-6902 Layw Thomas v. Kentucky Kentucky 2021-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP disproportionate-sentencing eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hammer-clause juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing-discretion Did Kentucky violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments when it allowed a youth who was 17 when his crimes occurred to be sentenced to life in priso…
19-5528 Robert Anthony Chester v. West Virginia West Virginia 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendant co-defendants constitutional-proportionality criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment disparate-sentencing disproportionate-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection first-degree-robbery sentencing sentencing-disparity Was Petitioner's One Hundred Eighty Year Sentence For His Conviction Of Two Counts Of First Degree Robbery Disparate To The Twenty Year Sentence Impos…