Thompson v. Parrent

How courts have described this case

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• loss of retirement benefits “often [is] the single most important sentencing matter to that accused and the sentencing authority”
• appellant’s loss of over $600,000.00 in retirement pay did not violate due process, nor constitute cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment
• loss of retirement benefits “often [is] the single most important sentencing matter to that accused and the sentencing authority”
• no error for the military judge to instruct, pursuant to the request of an accused who was eligible for and had applied for retirement, on the impact of a sentence on the accused’s retirement benefits

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).