What is the test for excessive punishment in criminal law?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Ham, B267322 (Cal. App. 2017):
Appellant maintains that his sentence requires him to serve a term of years which cannot possibly be served in his lifetime, and he relies on this premise to argue that his sentence violates the first of the two definitions of excessive punishment in Coker v. Georgia (1977) 433 U.S. 584 (Coker).
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