Legal Opinion
In Re Nunez
California Court of Appeal
Decided April 30, 2009No. G040377PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
ARONSON, J.
Antonio de Jesus Nuñez filed a petition for habeas corpus in the California Supreme Court on grounds, inter alia, that his sentence of life in prison without parole (LWOP) for kidnapping for ransom (Pen. Code, § 209, subd. (a)) 1 —an offense he committed when he was 14 years old—■ constitutes cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment or, alternatively, cruel or unusual punishment in violation of article I, section 17 of the California Constitution. Concluding Nuñez established a prima facie case for relief, the Supreme Court ordered Nuñez’s prison custodian to…
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