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U.S. v. Farley, No. 1:07-CR-196-BBM (N.D.Ga.) (2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 104437) (September 2, 2008) (Judge Beverly B. Martin)

Loaded on Sept. 1, 2008 published in Punch and Jurists September 08, 2008
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Mandatory Minimums.

Here the Court held that a 30-year mandatory minimum sentence required under a provision of the Adam Walsh Act was so grossly disproportionate to the defendant’s crime as to constitute cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment.

This case involves a constitutional challenge to an important provision ...

 

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