Arizona Supreme Court· 5/8/1992

State v. Bartlett

Citations

830 P.2d 823
171 Ariz. 302
112 Ariz. Adv. Rep. 3
1992 Ariz. LEXIS 36

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holding that defendant’s 40-year sentence without possibility of early release for two counts of sexual conduct with a minor violated the Eighth Amendment
recognizing the possibility that Arizona’s cruel or unusual clause is broader than the federal constitution’s
recognizing the possibility that Arizona's cruel or unusual clause is broader than the federal constitution's
finding that the defendant’s lack of a prior record reduced the gravity of his offenses
conducting intra- and inter-jurisdictional comparisons because threshold inference of gross disproportionality reached
it is the circumstances of the crime and the criminal that must be considered in determining gross disproportion

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Judges: Feldman, Corcoran, Moeller, Cameron, Gordon

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