Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Sentencing : From 10/01/02 To 07/01/03
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing |
| Title: | WIGGINS v. SMITH |
| Date: | 06/26/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-311 |
| Summary: | An objective review of the performance by a criminal defendant's counsel in a capital case shows that the client's Sixth Amendment rights were violated by counsel's failure to conduct a reasonable investigation of the defendant's social history and mitigating factors. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Cyberspace Law, Sentencing |
| Title: | CONNECTICUT DEP'T OF PUB. SAFETY v. DOE |
| Date: | 03/05/03 |
| Case Number: | 01-1231 |
| Summary: | The registration requirement for Connecticut's public disclosure of its Internet registry of sex offenders is based on the fact of a previous conviction, not the fact of current dangerousness, and due process does not require the opportunity to prove a fact that is not material to the state's statutory scheme. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing |
| Title: | EWING v. CALIFORNIA |
| Date: | 03/05/03 |
| Case Number: | 01-6978 |
| Summary: | The Eighth Amendment does not prohibit the State of California from sentencing a repeat felon to a prison term of 25 years under the state's "three strikes" law, and appellant's sentence was not grossly disproportionate. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing |
| Title: | LOCKYER v. ANDRADE |
| Date: | 03/05/03 |
| Case Number: | 01-1127 |
| Summary: | A California appeals court decision, affirming a sentence of two consecutive terms of 25 years to life in prison for a "third strike" conviction, was not an unreasonable application of the clearly established gross disproportionality federal standard. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Cyberspace Law, Sentencing |
| Title: | SMITH v. DOE |
| Date: | 03/05/03 |
| Case Number: | 01-729 |
| Summary: | The Alaska Sex Offender Registration Act is non-punitive, thus application of its registration requirement is not retroactive punishment and does not violate the Ex Post Facto clause. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing |
| Title: | SATTAZAHN v. PENNSYLVANIA |
| Date: | 01/14/03 |
| Case Number: | 01-7574 |
| Summary: | There was no Double Jeopardy bar to the state of Pennsylvania's seeking the death penalty on re-trial, where a defendant convicted of murder and sentenced to life succeeded in having his conviction set aside on appeal. |