City of Dickinson v. State Board of Equalization

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• finding that a life sentence for aggravated indecent liberties involving two 7-year-old victims is not disproportionate under the United States or Kansas Constitutions
• concluding some homicides are punished more harshly than aggravated indecent liberties and noting “[tjhere is no strict linear order of criminal activity that ranks all homicides as the most serious crimes”
• explaining that there is no strict linear order of criminal activity that ranks all homicides as the most serious crimes and all nonhomicide crimes as less serious, with the corresponding penalties necessarily ranking in diminishing durations of imprisonment
• finding Kansas sentencing scheme for aggravated indecent liberties with a child not out of line with other jurisdictions
• given sex offenders' higher risk to reoffend, the State has a particularly compelling interest in incarcerating offenders to protect children
• given sex offenders' higher risk to reoffend, the State has a particularly compelling interest in 3 incarcerating offenders to protect children

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