Gonzalez v. Duncan

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding the application of a statute to a defendant that was only tangentially related to the legislature’s reason for creating the law undermined the gravity of the offense
• 28 years to life for failure to timely update sex offender registration was cruel and unusual
• comparing California’s registration and sentencing scheme with other states
• forgetting to give diabetic insulin injections was “merely negligent”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).