Amanda Lyn Walker v. United States
AdministrativeLaw DueProcess Punishment Privacy
Whether a criminal statute with a sentencing range of not exceeding one year imprisonment in a county jail or not exceeding life imprisonment at the Department of Corrections or a fine of not less than five hundred dollars nor more than five thousand dollars, for all acts of enabling child abuse, is unconstitutionally vague
QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether a criminal statute with a sentencing range of not exceeding one year imprisonment in a county jail or not exceeding life imprisonment at the Department of Corrections or a fine of not less than five hundred dollars nor more than five thousand dollars, for all acts of enabling child abuse, is unconstitutionally vague. 2. Whether the Tenth Circuit’s statutory interpretation of an Oklahoma statute, declaring all acts of enabling child abuse as felony offenses punishable by life imprisonment, in disregard of the principle of disproportionality, intrudes upon the legislature’s role and violates the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishments. 3. Whether the Constitution allows a district judge to increase a defendant’s sentence based on facts the judge finds without the aid of a jury or the defendant’s consent. i