United States Ninth Circuit

In a prosecution for child molestation, a denial of petitioner's habeas petition is affirmed where petitioner's sentence of life without parole, based on Washington's "two-strikes" law, was not grossly disproportionate to his crime under the Eighth Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/23/2010
• Published 09/23/2010

Judges

• Marsha S. Berzon

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Matthew Campbell, Robert McKenna