Resentencing on Eighth Amendment Grounds

Published for NC Criminal Law on July 31, 2014.

Some inmates are serving long sentences for older crimes that would receive a much shorter sentence under today’s law. It is clear at this point that they cannot have today’s law applied to them retroactively, as Jessie discussed in this prior post. That’s true for inmates who received longer sentences under Fair Sentencing, State v. ... Read more

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