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Vasquez v. Commonwealth

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Current status: UPHELD
As of: Feb 12, 2016
Source: SUPREME COURT OF VIRGINIA · DOCKET 141071 ↗

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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 …

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