Sexton v. Persson

Petitioner killed his parents in 1998 when he was 17 years old. Based on a guilty plea, he was convicted of two counts of murder and sentenced to consecutive life sentences with mandatory minimum prison terms of 25 years. In 2011, he filed a successive petition for post-conviction relief under ORS 138.510 and ORS 138.550,1 asserting that his sentence for murder was “unconstitutionally disproportionate to the penalty for the greater-included offense of aggravated murder under Article I, section 16 [,] of the Oregon Constitution.”2 Ultimately, the post-conviction court denied his petition and…