Legal Opinion

Kenneth Dale Nicodemus v. State

Wyoming Supreme Court

Decided March 22, 2017No. S-16-0186PublishedCited by 11 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

HILL, Justice.

[¶1] In 1992, Kenneth Nicodemus pled guilty to two counts of first degree murder and one count of larceny for crimes he committed when he was eighteen years old. He was sentenced to two consecutive sentences of life imprisonment on the murder counts and eight to ten years in prison on the larceny count, to ran consecutive to the life sentences. In 2014, Mr. Nicodemus filed a Rule 35 motion to correct an illegal sentence, contending his life sentences violated the federal constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment and the Wyoming constitution’s protection…

2Cases cited29 opinions

  1. Miller v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 2012
  2. Roper v. SimmonsSupreme Court of the United States · 2005
  3. Graham v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 2010
  4. Hopkinson v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 1983
  5. Saldana v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 1993

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3Cited by11 opinions

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  5. Hall v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 2018

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