HERNANDEZ-SUAZO

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By (22 total)

• United States v. Carey, 898 F.2d 642 (8th Cir. 1990)
  …on provides for a statutory minimum penalty of 15 years and a maximum term of life imprisonment. United States v. Blannon, 836 F. 2d 843, 845 (4th Cir.) (statute which imposes no upper limit has a maximum penalty of life imprisonment), cert. denied, 486 U.S. 1010, 108 S.Ct. 1741, 100 L.Ed.2d 204 (1988). See United States v. Lego, 855 F. 2d 542, 546 (8th Cir.1988) {Lego) (§ 924(e)(1) has mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years). If appellant had been sentenced pursuant to Sentencing Guideline § 2K2.1,2 he [*6…
• United States v. Valencia, 907 F.2d 671 (7th Cir. 1990)
  …s, 739 F. 2d 1250, 1252-53 (7th Cir.1984). . See, e.g., United States v. Dworken, 855 F. 2d 12, 16-17 (1st Cir.1988); United States v. Ivic, 700 F. 2d 51, 66 (2d Cir.1983); United States v. Pelton, 835 F. 2d 1067, 1074 (4th Cir.1987), cert. denied, 486 U.S. 1010, 108 S.Ct. 1741, 100 L.Ed.2d 204 (1988); United States v. August, 835 F. 2d 76, 77-78 (5th Cir.1987); United States v. Williams, 704 F. 2d 315, 321 (6th Cir.), cert. denied, 464 U.S. 991, 104 S.Ct. 481, 78 L.Ed.2d 679 (1983); United States v. Wagner…
• United States v. Crescenciano M. Pena, 920 F.2d 1509 (10th Cir. 1990)
  …Amendment prohibits barbaric punishment and sentences disproportionate to the crime committed. Solem v. Helm, 463 U.S. 277, 284, 103 S.Ct. 3001, 3006, 77 L.Ed.2d 637 (1983); United States v. Gourley, 835 F. 2d 249, 252 (10th Cir.1987), cert. denied, 486 U.S. 1010, 108 S.Ct. 1741, 100 L.Ed.2d 204 (1988). Within the strictures of the Eighth Amendment, however, determination of proper criminal penalties is a matter for legislative bodies. Gourley, 835 F. 2d at 252-53. Thus, a sentence within the prescribed stat…