Fife v. Hill

50 F. App'x 857

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Decided: November 13, 2002
• Docket: No. 01-35900; D.C. No. CV-99-01578-MRH
• Status: Published

Opinion

MEMORANDUM

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Even if petitioner preserved his claim, there is simply nothing cruel or unusual about a seventy-month mandatory sentence for intentionally and unexcusedly shooting someone in the back with a firearm. See Andrade v. Attorney General, 270 F.3d 743, 754 (2001) (“[The Eighth Amendment] forbids only extreme sentences that are ‘grossly disproportionate’ to the crime.” (internal quotation marks omitted)); see also Harmelin v. Michigan, 501 U.S. 957, 995, 111 S.Ct. 2680, 115 L.Ed.2d 836 (1991) (“There can be no serious contention ... that a sentence which is not otherwise cruel and unusual becomes so simply because it is ‘mandatory.’ ”).

AFFIRMED.

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