Norris v. Morgan

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that sentence of 2 life without possibility of parole for conviction of first degree child molestation of 5-year-old girl, 3 where touching was brief and over clothing, was not grossly disproportionate
• holding 13 that a life sentence without the possibility of parole was not grossly disproportionate to 14 defendant’s serious sex offense
• surveying the “disarray” of Supreme Court jurisprudence on the 18 disproportionality principle that culminated in Andrade
• upholding a LWOP sentence for a single conviction resulting from touching the victim’s genitalia over her clothing for “a couple of seconds”
• upholding a sentence of life without the possibility of parole imposed after two convictions for child molestation
• stating, “[w]e compare the harshness of the 18 penalty imposed upon the defendant with the gravity of his triggering offense and criminal 19 history.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).