NORTH

v.

WEST VIRGINIA BOARD OF REGENTS

Citator

Cited By (39 total)

• United States v. Gourley, 835 F.2d 249 (10th Cir. 1987)
  …ter for the legislature. If a sentence imposed is within the prescribed statutory limits, the appellate court generally will not regard it as cruel and unusual punishment. United States v. O’Driscoll, 761 F. 2d 589, 599 (10th Cir.1985), cert. denied 475 U.S. 1020, 106 S.Ct. 1207, 89 L.Ed.2d 320 (1986); United States v. LeMon, 622 F. 2d 1022 (10th Cir.1980); United States v. Baer, 575 F. 2d 1295 (10th Cir.1978); Adams v. United States, 266 F. 2d 819 (10th Cir.1959). Gourley maintains that a life sentence for…
• United States v. Whitworth, 856 F.2d 1268 (9th Cir. 1988)
  …(a).” Gwaltney, 790 F. 2d at 1387. The Eighth and Tenth circuits have reached a similar conclusion. See Rothgeb v. United States, 789 F. 2d 647, 651-53 (8th Cir.1986); United States v. O’Driscoll, 761 F. 2d 589, 596-97 (10th Cir.1985), cert. denied, 475 U.S. 1020, 106 S.Ct. 1207, 89 L.Ed.2d 320 (1986). The First and Seventh circuits have taken the opposite view. See United States v. Castonguay, 843 F. 2d 51, 56 (1st Cir.1988); United States v. Fountain, 840 F. 2d 509, 523 (7th Cir.1988). Gwaltney controls in…
• United States v. Fountain, 840 F.2d 509 (7th Cir. 1988)
  …t before confessing error on two published statements. When we asked for further briefs, the prosecutor furnished copies of the memoranda the Solicitor General filed in opposition to the petitions for writs of certiorari in O’Driscoll, cert. denied, 475 U.S. 1020, 106 S.Ct. 1207, 89 L.Ed.2d 320 (1986), and Gwaltney, cert. denied, — U.S. -, 107 S.Ct. 1337, 94 L.Ed.2d 187 (1987), asserting that these showed that the Department had changed its position. They show nothing of the sort. Each memorandum asks the Co…