Morris v. State

JOHNSON, Presiding Judge.

This case requires us to apply the decision of the Supreme Court of Georgia in Humphrey v. Wilson. In Humphrey, a majority of the Supreme Court concluded as a matter of law that, based on the facts and circumstances of the case, a mandatory minimum sentence of ten years in prison with no possibility of parole, as well as registration as a sexual offender, 2 constituted cruel and unusual punishment for a seventeen-year-old defendant convicted of the aggravated child molestation of a fifteen-year-old victim. 3 In response to the Humphrey dissent’s prescient warning that…