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Hutto Vs. Davis

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jan 11, 1982

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  1. Trop Vs. Dulles US Supreme Court · Mar 31, 1958
  2. Harris Vs. Rivera US Supreme Court · Dec 14, 1981
  3. Rummel Vs. Estelle US Supreme Court · Mar 18, 1980
  4. U.S. 370 (1982) U.S. Supreme Court Hutto v. Davis
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  5. U.S. 370 (1982) Hutto v. Davis
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  6. prior affirmance had been vacated by this Court and the case had been remanded for reconsideration in light of Rummel v. Estelle
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  7. and prison terms of not less than 5 nor more than 40 years for each of respondent's offenses. Davis v. Davis
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  8. by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. The District Court, relying primarily upon the four factors set forth in Hart v. Coiner
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  9. Davis v. Zahradnick
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  10. a writ of habeas corpus. A panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed. Davis v. Davis
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  11. affirmed the award of habeas relief. Davis v. Davis
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  12. the judgment of the Court of Appeals, and remanded the case for reconsideration in light of our decision in Rummel v. Estelle
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  13. U. S. 263 (1980). Sub nom. Hutto v. Davis
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  14. U.S. 947 (1980). The Court of Appeals again affirmed the District Court, this time by an equally divided vote. Davis v. Davis
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  15. above, the District Court found respondent's sentence to be unconstitutional by applying the four-part test of Hart v. Coiner
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  16. sold drugs to an inmate's wife who was alone with an infant child, and had himself been imprisoned in the past. Davis v. Davis
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  17. to the offense. Nevertheless, for the reasons stated below, I reluctantly conclude that the Court's decision in Rummel v. Estelle
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  18. Davis v. Davis
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  19. This judgment was reversed on appeal, Davis v. Davis
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  20. We remanded for reconsideration in light of our decision in Rummel v. Estelle
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  21. II The sole authority upon which the Court today relies is its decision in Rummel v. Estelle
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  22. comparisons -- that his sentences suffer from a greater degree of disproportionality than Rummel's did. Compare Davis v. Zahradnick
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  23. Davis v. Zahranick
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  24. E.g., Coker v. Georgia
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  25. Weems v. United
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  26. Id. at 1233. Cf. Vines v. Muncy
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  27. evident than in this case. With the benefit of neither full briefing nor oral argument, the Court holds that Rummel v. Estelle
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  28. in violation of the Eighth Amendment, as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, see Robinson v. California
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  29. improper expansion of Rummel. Rummel acknowledged that prior decisions of this Court, see, e.g., Ingraham v. Wright
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  30. See Coker v. Georgia
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  31. Trop v. Dulles
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  32. The per curiam notes that the District Court applied the four-factor proportionality test of Hart v. Coiner
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  33. the jury, which awarded the sentences, was unaware that the respondent had previously been convicted. See Davis v. Davis
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  34. U.S. Supreme Court Hutto v. Davis
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  35. of Rummel v. Estelle
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  36. Hart v. Coiner
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  37. of Hart v. Coiner
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  38. Compare Davis v. Zahradnick
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  39. Cf. Vines v. Muncy
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  40. Robinson v. California
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  41. Ingraham v. Wright
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  42. See Davis v. Davis
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