Cole v. Missouri

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “a sentence that falls within statutory limits is presumptively valid and will not be reversed absent a showing of improper procedure or abuse of discretion”
• observing that the Virgin Islands statute prescribing punishment for second degree murder, 14 V.I.C. § 923(b
• upholding a sentence for 75 years for second degree murder and ten years for possession of a firearm during a crime of violence because there were no procedural irregularities below

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).