Constitutional Law - Eighth Amendment - Cruel and Unusual Punishment - Criminal Law - Proportionality Review in Non-Capital Sentencing

Authors

Russell K. Broman

Abstract

The United States Supreme Court has held that a sentence of life imprisonment without parole imposed in accordance with a state recidivist statute on a defendant after his seventh non-violent felony conviction constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

Solem v. Helm, 103 S. Ct. 3001 (1983).

First Page

1069

Recommended Citation

Russell K. Broman, Constitutional Law - Eighth Amendment - Cruel and Unusual Punishment - Criminal Law - Proportionality Review in Non-Capital Sentencing, 22 Duq. L. Rev. 1069 (1984).
Available at: https://dsc.duq.edu/dlr/vol22/iss4/14