United States v. David S. Kuck

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting a contention that the imposition of a special parole term is cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment
• “A sentencing statute is not unconstitutional because of failure to provide a maximum term.”
• “Although the Eighth Amendment is a constitutional limitation on congressionally prescribed penalties, legislative provision for a penalty is some indication that it does not offend the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).