State v. Garcia

CAMERON, Justice.

The defendant, Manuel Cota Garcia, was convicted and judged guilty of three counts of dangerous or deadly assault by a prisoner, and sentenced to concurrent terms of life without possibility of suspension or commutation of sentence or of parole or probation for twenty-five years. A.R.S. § 13-1206. The sentences were to run con*99secutively with the sentence he was already serving. A.R.S. § 13-1206. He appeals.

We must answer the following questions on appeal:

1. Does the legislatively mandated punishment of life imprisonment constitute cruel or unusual punishment in violation of…