PATILLO

v.

CALIFORNIA

Citator

Cited By

• O'Shea v. Littleton, 414 U.S. 488 (U.S. 1974)
  …osition of sentence is a matter of judicial discretion, and in the absence of a manifest abuse of that discretion it will not be altered [*511] by a reviewing court.” People v. Bonner, 37 Ill. 2d 553, 563, 229 N. E. 2d 527, 533 (1967), cert. denied, 392 U. S. 910 (1968). Furthermore, the respondents do not primarily allege individual instances of excessively harsh treatment, on an absolute scale, of black and indigent defendants, but rather a pattern of discriminatory treatment, especially in favor of prosp…
• Ezell Littleton v. Peyton Berbling, 468 F.2d 389 (7th Cir. 1972)
  …e. “[I]mposition of sentence is a matter of judicial discretion, and in the absence of a manifest abuse of that discretion it will not be altered by a reviewing court.” People v. Bonner, 37 Ill.2d 553, 563, 229 N.E. 2d 527, 533 (1967), cert. denied, 392 U.S. 910, 88 S.Ct. 2067, 20 L.Ed.2d 1368 (1968). But it is quite possible that a class of plaintiffs will be able to show an invidious discrimination in length of sentences imposed by a given judge, even though all of the sentences may fall within the statu…