Legal Opinion
State v. Davis
Arizona Supreme Court
Decided October 30, 2003No. CR-01-0423-PRPublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BERCH, Justice.
¶ 1 We granted review in this ease to decide whether sentencing a twenty-year-old defendant to a mandatory minimum sentence of fifty-two years without the possibility of parole for having voluntary sex with two post-pubescent teenage girls is so grossly disproportionate to the crime as to violate the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. We hold that it is.
FACTS1
¶ 2 In January 1999, thirteen-year-old T.E. and her stepsister, C.M., snuck out of their house at night to meet nineteen-year-old Jason in a local park. Jason drove the girls to the…
2Cases cited32 opinions
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- Solem v. HelmSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
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- Rummel v. EstelleSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Ewing v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 2003
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3Cited by57 opinions
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