Hawkins v. Hargett

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the “Eighth Amendment analysis focuses on the sentence imposed for each specific crime, not on the cumulative sentence”
• explaining that the “Eighth Amendment analysis 24 focuses on the sentence imposed for each specific crime, not on the 25 cumulative sentence”
• holding that Justice Kennedy’s concurrence was the narrowest
• finding no Eighth Amendment violation in sentences totaling 100 years when these sentences were for combined separate offenses of rape and robbery
• stating Eighth Amendment analysis focuses on sentence imposed for each specific crime, not on cumulative sentence for multiple crimes
• refusing to apply increased proportionality review because a juvenile’s aggregated consecutive sentences totaled more than 100 years

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).