Legal Opinion

State v. Ryan

Oregon Supreme Court

Decided June 22, 2017No. CC 13C43883; CA A156146; SC S063857PublishedCited by 28 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

*604BREWER, J.

Defendant, who is intellectually disabled, makes an as-applied challenge to his 75-month mandatory minimum prison sentence for first-degree sexual abuse, ORS 163.427, on the ground that it violates Article I, section 16, of the Oregon Constitution, and the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibit sentences that are disproportionate to the offense for which they are imposed.

Defendant pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree sexual abuse and three counts of third-degree sexual abuse, for over-the-clothes touching of the sexually intimate parts of nine- and…

2Cases cited19 opinions

  1. Solem v. HelmSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
  2. Harmelin v. MichiganSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
  3. Atkins v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 2002
  4. Roper v. SimmonsSupreme Court of the United States · 2005
  5. Graham v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 2010

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3Cited by28 opinions

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