No. 24-6748

Clifford Charles Galley, II v. Colorado

Lower Court: Colorado
Docketed: 2025-03-11
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: consecutive-sentences constitutional-proportionality cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment life-without-parole sentencing
Key Terms:
DueProcess Punishment
Latest Conference: 2025-05-02
Question Presented (AI Summary)

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

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

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.

Docket Entries

2025-05-05
Petition DENIED.
2025-04-17
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/2/2025.
2025-04-15
Waiver of Colorado of right to respond submitted.
2025-04-15
Waiver of right of respondent Colorado to respond filed.
2025-02-28
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 10, 2025)

Attorneys

Clifford Charles Galley, II
Clifford Charles Galley II — Petitioner
Clifford Charles Galley II — Petitioner
Colorado
Jillian Joy PriceColorado Attorney General's Office, Respondent
Jillian Joy PriceColorado Attorney General's Office, Respondent