Legal Opinion
Norris v. Morgan
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 23, 2010No. 08-35645PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BERZON, Circuit Judge:
Brach E. Norris was convicted by a jury of child molestation in the first-degree. Norris had also been convicted of child molestation ten years earlier. The State of Washington’s “two strikes” law for repeat sex offenders provides for a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole, and Norris was so sentenced. Invoking the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, Norris challenges his sentence as grossly disproportionate to his offense.
The Washington Court of Appeals denied Norris’s claim, holding his…
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