SOTO ET AL.

v.

DICKEY ET AL.

Citator

Cited By

• ORT v. Warden J.D. White, 813 F.2d 318 (11th Cir. 1987)
  …S.Ct. 2392, 2398, 69 L.Ed.2d 59 (1981). The amendment has also been found to proscribe the infliction of punishment grossly disproportionate to the severity of the offense. See id.; Soto v. Dickey, 744 F. 2d 1260, 1269 (7th Cir.1984), cert. denied, 470 U.S. 1085, 105 S.Ct. 1846, 85 L.Ed.2d 144 (1985). Eighth amendment principles apply not only to judicially imposed punishments, but also when conditions of confinement constitute the punishment at issue. See Rhodes, 452 U.S. at 347, 101 S.Ct. at 2399. The li…

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• United States v. Armand W. Robinson, Sr., 832 F.2d 366 (7th Cir. 1987)
  …also United States v. Xheka, 704 F. 2d 974, 984 (7th Cir.), cert. denied, 464 U.S. 993, 104 S.Ct. 486, 78 L.Ed.2d 682 (1983); United States v. DeGudino, 722 F. 2d 1351 (7th Cir.1983); United States v. Rodgers, 755 F. 2d 533 (7th Cir.), cert. denied, 470 U.S. 1085 (1985). ♦ * * # * * Finding no harmful error nor abuse of discretion in the trial of this case, we conclude that the disposition below should be affirmed and the judgment left to stand. Affirmed.…
• United States v. Rosalba Solivan, 937 F.2d 1146 (6th Cir. 1991)
  …Circuit’s condemnation of this genre of comments designed to divert rather than focus the jury upon the evidence. See id. We agree with the following statement by the court in United States v. Monaghan, 741 F. 2d 1434 (D.C.Cir.1984), cert. denied, 470 U.S. 1085, 105 S.Ct. 1847, 85 L.Ed.2d 146 (1985), condemning appeals to the community interest to end a societal evil: A prosecutor may not urge jurors to convict a criminal defendant in order to protect community values, preserve civil order, or deter futur…