Grover Henderson v. Larry Norris, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction

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• holding that defendant’s sentence violated the Eighth Amendment while acknowledging that defendant could have received the same sentence in Idaho
• holding that defendant's sentence violated the Eighth Amendment while acknowledging that defendant could have received the same sentence in Idaho
• finding sentence grossly -3- disproportionate to habeas corpus petitioner's crime where sentence was not warranted by harm caused or threatened to a victim or to society, petitioner's culpability or degree of involvement, or by recidivism concerns
• life sentence for first offense delivery of less than one gram of cocaine grossly disproportionate

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).