What is the test for a sentence that is grossly disproportionate to the severity of the crime?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Fuentes, E065976 (Cal. App. 2018):
The Eighth Amendment "prohibits imposition of a sentence that is grossly disproportionate to the severity of the crime." (Rummel v. Estelle (1980) 445 U.S. 263,
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