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… |