GUSTIN

v.

STEGALL ET AL.

Citator

Cited By

• Thompson v. State, 553 So. 2d 153 (Fla. 1989)
  …of prior bad acts. . The issue of whether Florida’s death penalty statute is constitutional has been resolved by this Court as well as the United States Supreme Court. Proffitt v. Florida, 428 U.S. 242, 96 S.Ct. 2960, 49 L.Ed.2d 913, reh’g denied, 429 U.S. 875, 97 S.Ct. 198, 50 L.Ed.2d 158 (1976); State v. Dixon, 283 So. 2d 1, 11 (Fla.1973), cert. denied, 416 U.S. 943, 94 S.Ct. 1950, 40 L.Ed.2d 295 (1974).…
• McQUEARY v. Blodgett, 924 F.2d 829 (9th Cir. 1991)
  …rough the fourteenth amendment. A criminal penalty constitutes cruel and unusual punishment if it: (a) “involve[s] the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain,” Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153, 173, 96 S.Ct. 2909, 2925, 49 L.Ed.2d 859 reh’g denied, 429 U.S. 875, 97 S.Ct. 197, 50 L.Ed.2d 158 (1976), (b) is “grossly disproportionate to the severity of the crime,” Rhodes v. Chapman, 452 U.S. 337, 346, 101 S.Ct. 2392, 2399, 69 L.Ed.2d 59 (1981) (citing Coker v. Georgia, 433 U.S. 584, 592, 97 S.Ct. 2861, 2866,…