In re Coley
Annotate this CaseIn People v. Carmony (Carmony II), a decision of the California court of appeal concluded that a twenty-five-year-to-life sentence under the Three Strikes law constituted cruel and/or unusual punishment as applied to a defendant whose triggering offense was the failure to annually update his sex offender registration within five working days of his birthday. In the present habeas corpus proceeding, the court of appeal, considering the constitutionality of a twenty-five-year-to-life sentence imposed upon Defendant, who also was convicted of failing to update his sex offender registration within five working days of his birthday, expressly disagreed with the conclusion of the appellate court in Carmony II and held that the punishment was constitutionally permissible. The Supreme Court affirmed on other grounds, holding that Defendant's sentence here did not constitute cruel and unusual punishment under the circumstances of this case, but this holding did not rest upon a determination that Carmony II was wrongly decided.
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