Consulich Societa Triestina Di Navigazione v. Elting

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that a sentence within the limits set by a valid statute may not be overturned as cruel and unusual on appeal
• concluding only punishments grossly disproportionate to the crime are forbidden by the Eighth Amendment
• affirming sentence of 1,141 months for conviction of five counts of Hobbs Act robbery and five counts of § 924(c) as it was not grossly disproportionate to defendant’s crimes in contravention of the Eighth Amendment
• “urg[ing] Congress to reconsider its scheme of manda- tory consecutive minimum sentences”
• \Our court follows the narrow proportionality rule established by Justice Kennedy's concurrence in Harmelin . . . .\
• “We feel a just system of punishment demands that some level of discretion be vested in sentencing judges to consider mitigating circumstances.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).