Legal Opinion
State v. Standard
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Decided August 12, 2002No. 25514PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Waller
Appellant, James R. Standard, was convicted of burglary in the first degree and grand larceny. Based upon a prior armed robbery conviction, he was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole (LWOP) pursuant to S.C.Code Ann. § 17-25-45 (2001), the Two-Strikes law.
FACTS
On July 5, 1995, approximately two months prior to his sixteenth birthday, 1 Standard committed an armed robbery. He was waived up to general sessions court where he pled guilty to armed robbery on October 17, 1996 (at age 17); he was given a youthful offender sentence not to exceed six years. 2
Shortly after his release on the…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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- Atkins v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 2002
- Trop v. DullesSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
- Thompson v. OklahomaSupreme Court of the United States · 1988
- State v. GreenSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1998
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3Cited by11 opinions
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