State v. Heden

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that life imprisonment without the possibility of release for first-degree murder while committing first-degree criminal sexual conduct did not violate the Cruel or Unusual Punishment Clause
• noting that the challenger “bears the heavy burden ... of showing that our culture and laws emphatically and well nigh universally reject the sentence”
• affirming life without possibility of release sentence for first-degree murder while committing or attempting to commit criminal sexual conduct

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).