Clifford Charles Galley, II v. Colorado
DueProcess Punishment
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment requires consideration of aggregate, consecutive sentences amounting to life without parole as potentially grossly disproportionate
1) Under the ever evolving standards that mark the progress of a maturing society, does the Eighth Amendments prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment require consideration as to whether the imposition of aggregate, consecutively imposed sentences amounting to a life without the possibility of parole sentence are grossly disproportionate? 2) Do some of Mr. Galley's individual sentences violate the Eighth Amendments prohibition against the imposition of cruel and unusual punishment given the particular facts associated with the offenses he was convicted of? 3) Were Mr. Galley's Fourteenth Amendment protections violated when Colorado failed to follow its own well-settled law when imposing sentence upon him in an illegal manner, which, under Colorado law, only allows for correction within 126 days of having done so? i.