State of Arizona v. Mark Noriki Kasic

OPINION

VÁSQUEZ, Presiding Judge.

¶ 1 Mark Kasic, Jr. was convicted after a jury trial of thirty-two felonies arising from six arsons and one attempted arson committed over a one-year period beginning when he was seventeen years of age. Because a number of the offenses were committed when Kasic was a juvenile, he contends his combination of concurrent and consecutive prison sentences totaling 139.75 years violates the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment under Graham v. Florida, — U.S. -, 130 S.Ct. 2011, 176 L.Ed.2d 825 (2010). 1 He also challenges two of his…