LEGALST 109 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Intellectual Disability, Homicide, Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Legal Studies
• Course: LEGALST 109
• Professor: Richard Perry

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Purpose of punishment: deterrence, retribution, incapacitation, education, and treatment; not rehabilitation. Judicial discretion: there"s (cid:374)ot a lot of it; federal a(cid:374)d state se(cid:374)te(cid:374)(cid:272)i(cid:374)g guideli(cid:374)es a(cid:374)d (cid:373)i(cid:374)i(cid:373)u(cid:373) sentences. Truth in sentencing: parole boards are not as able to reduce sentences for good behavior as before because of truth in sentencing legislation, so offenders are serving a larger portion of their sentences. Victims: getting more and more protections and a bigger role. Death penalty: does not violate 8th amendment, but has to be proportional to crime. Terms of years: courts defer to legislatures, sentences must be proportional to crime. Equal protection: (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t se(cid:374)te(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:271)ased o(cid:374) ra(cid:272)e or ge(cid:374)der. Ct. justice anthony kennedy (majority): not an unconstitutional ex post facto law, b/c it is intended to keep the public safe. Justice ruth bader ginsburg: it is ex post facto punishment: putti(cid:374)g photos o(cid:374)li(cid:374)e is like old (cid:862)sha(cid:373)i(cid:374)g(cid:863) pe(cid:374)alties.