State v. Barker

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• explaining “procedure for analyzing a life recidivist sentence under [West Virginia’s] proportionality principle” and holding that life sentence for third strike offense of “forgery and uttering” violated state constitutional protection against cruel and unusual punishments
• explaining \procedure for analyzing a life recidivist sentence under [West Virginia's] proportionality principle\ and holding that life sentence for third strike offense of \forgery and uttering\ violated state constitutional protection against cruel and unusual punishments

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Ewing v. California
  Supreme Court· 2003-03-05· cited 1,555×
• State v. Witherspoon
  Washington Supreme Court· 2014-07-17· cited 167×
• State v. Richardson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2003-12-08· cited 15×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wanstreet v. Bordenkircher
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1981-03-10· cited 241×
• State v. Beck
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1981-07-17· cited 140×
• State Ex Rel. Boso v. Hedrick
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1990-01-26· cited 33×
• Committee on Legal Ethics of the West Virginia State Bar v. Boettner
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1990-04-17· cited 29×
• State v. Deal
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1987-05-27· cited 22×
• State v. Miller
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1990-12-19· cited 21×