[Eala]

In a recent case before the state Supreme Court, lawyers for 18-year-old Marcus Dixon argued that a decade-long mandatory sentence for aggravated child molestation was cruel and unusual. The trial judge said during sentencing that his hands are tied by the Legislature insofar as the mandatory minimum.

This sounds like the conviction isn't too recent...

[cyborg]

That's what I just heard today on ABC radio that the decision went down for him to spend ten years in prison.