United States v. Charles Hopper

How courts have described this case

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• applying the “narrow proportionality principle” articulated by Justice Kennedy’s concurring opinion in Harmelin v. Michigan, 501 U.S. 957, 996–97 (1991)
• fact that the court did not consider allowing defendant to pay on an installment basis is evidence that the court improperly failed to consider ability to pay
• interpreting Harmelin v. Michigan, 111 S. Ct. 2680 (1991)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).