DETWILER v. STATE’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “[w]e thus find, as we did in Martinez , that the Eighth Amendment analysis focuses on the sentence imposed for each specific crime, not on the cumulative sentence for multiple crimes. To do otherwise would effectively give crimes away.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. BEVER v. STATE · MARTINEZ v. STATE

2. “[t]he Supreme Court has not explicitly held that stacked sentences imposed in a juvenile case--whether homicide or nonhomicide--should be reviewed in the aggregate when conducting an Eighth Amendment analysis.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. BEVER v. STATE

3. “[b]ased upon the length of [Martinez's] sentences and the current status of the law, we find that [Martinez] has some meaningful opportunity to obtain release on parole during his lifetime.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. BEVER v. STATE