What is the test for determining the proportionality of a sentence that is proportionally disproportionate?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Parmley v. Brazelton, Case No. 1:12-cv-00664 AWI MJS (HC) (E.D. Cal. 2013):
Rummel v. Estelle, 445 U.S. 263 (1980)); Ewing v. California, 538 U.S. 11, 23 (2003). "Successful challenges to the proportionality of particular sentences will be exceedingly rare." Solem, 463 U.S. at 289-90.
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