Stromas v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that a seven-factor test for authenticating tape recordings “has been supplanted by the Rules of Evidence and is no longer applicable to the admission of tape recordings”
• \Declaring a sentence violative of the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution carries a heavy burden and only in rare cases should this Court make such a finding.\
• \Declaring a sentence violative of the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution carries a heavy burden and only in rare cases should this Court make such a finding.\
• stating criminal defendant is entitled to fully confront every witness against him
• where defendant was convicted of selling a small amount of cocaine received sixty-year sentence as a repeat offender, this Court held that the sentence was not \grossly disproportionate.\
• “It is the [L]egislature’s prerogative, and not this Court’s, to set the length of sentences.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).