Ducote v. State

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• rejecting Eighth Amendment claim of defendant who did not present any evidence suggesting life term was grossly disproportionate to crime of attempted first-degree murder
• rejecting Eighth Amendment claim of defendant who did not present any evidence suggesting life term was grossly disproportionate to crime of attempted murder in first degree and who had to be sentenced to life imprisonment under habitual offender statute
• rejecting Eighth Amendment claim of defendant who did not present any evidence suggesting life term was grossly disproportionate to crime of attempted murder in first degree and who had to be sentenced to life imprisonment under habitual offender statute
• rejecting Eighth Amendment claim of defendant who did not present any evidence suggesting life term was grossly disproportionate to crime of attempted murder in first degree and who had to be sentenced to life imprisonment under habitual offender statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Windsor v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-08-28
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-10-13
• Patton v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2021-10-21