Josiah Deyton v. Alvin Keller, Jr.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the Supreme Court has described as “impermissible” during sentencing the consideration of race, religion, and political affiliation (quoting Zant, 462 U.S. at 885)
• “To the extent that the [trial] judge quoted from the Bible, there is . . . no credible argument that he impermissibly rested the chosen term of imprisonment on scripture and not on [state law].”
• “The Supreme Court’s decision in Zant bars a sentencing judge from relying on the religion . . . of the defendant in determining the appropriate term of imprisonment.” (internal quotation 4 marks omitted)
• “To the extent that the [trial] judge quoted from the Bible, there is . . . no credible argument that he impermissibly rested the chosen term of imprisonment on scripture and not on [state law].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).