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Vasquez v. Commonwealth
No. 141071Supreme Court of Virginia
141071 Vasquez v. Commonwealth 02/12/2016 The convictions and sentences of two defendants -- who were 16 years of age when they perpetrated rape at knifepoint and some 30 other offenses -- are affirmed. There …
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141071 Vasquez v. Commonwealth 02/12/2016 The convictions and sentences of two defendants -- who were 16 years of age when they p…
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141071 Vasquez v. Commonwealth 02/12/2016 The convictions and sentences of two defendants -- who were 16 years of age when they perpetrated rape at knifepoint and some 30 other offenses -- are affirmed. There is no basis for declaring the multiple term-of-years sentences imposed to be cruel and unusual under the Eighth Amendment. Nothing in governing constitutional case law dictates that multiple sentences involving multiple crimes be treated, for Eighth Amendment purposes, in exactly the same manner as a single life-without-parole sentence for a single crime. Doing so would require extension of the categorical rule of case law far beyond any binding precedent, embracing a wholly new doctri…
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141071 Vasquez v. Commonwealth 02/12/2016 The convictions and sentences of two defendants -- who were 16 years of age when they perpetrated rape at knifepoint and some 30 other offenses -- are affirmed. There is no basis for declaring the multiple term-of-years sentences imposed to be cruel and unusual under the Eighth Amendment. Nothing in governing constitutional case law dictates that multiple sentences involving multiple crimes be treated, for Eighth Amendment purposes, in exactly the same manner as a single life-without-parole sentence for a single crime. Doing so would require extension of the categorical rule of case law far beyond any binding precedent, embracing a wholly new doctri…
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