Walle v. State

CASANUEVA, Judge.

Jose Guadalupe Walle — thirteen years old when he committed numerous nonho-micide offenses in Hillsborough County— appeals his sentences, contending they violate the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. Following convictions for eighteen offenses, the trial judge imposed sentences totaling sixty-five years of imprisonment. The trial judge also ordered the sixty-five-year terms to run consecutively to previously imposed concurrent sentences totaling twenty-seven years’ imprisonment. Three months earlier, a different trial judge in a different…