Johnson v. Greenleaf

How courts have described this case

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• court presumes the validity of the sentence selected by the legislature, and the challenging party bears a heavy burden to establish that the legislation is unconstitutional
• rational basis appropriate equal protection test for assessing classification subjecting minors age sixteen or over to adult penalties, including incarceration, for motor vehicle misdemeanors
• fair and substantial relation test “assumed to be equivalent to rational basis test”
• labeling Carson standard as “the so-called middle tier” test

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).