As you know, amazing things can happen when law students go deep on unexplored issues of state constitutional law.
Adam Bonin
The PA Supreme Court has decided, in large part based on a law student note authored in 2023, that our state constitution's protection against cruel punishments is based on a more robust understanding of cruelty than the US Constitution.
That note from Kevin Bendesky (HLS '23) is here:
Adam Bonin
con.law
BREAKING: The PA Supreme Court holds that mandatory life without parole sentences for all "felony murder" convictions -- a sentence more than 1,000 people in PA are serving -- violates the state constitution's "cruel" punishment ban. This is GROUNDBREAKING: www.pacourts.us/assets/opini...
