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• W303570469 abstract "I. INTRODUCTION The Supreme Court of Louisiana recently upheld a death sentence for a conviction of aggravated rape of a minor in State v. Kennedy. (1) While the potential implications of this decision on the proportionality jurisprudence of the Federal Constitution have yet to be finalized, (2) the decision poses some interesting questions regarding Louisiana's state constitutional proportionality jurisprudence. Like many states, the Constitution of Louisiana contains provisions that provide rights similar to those provided by the Federal Constitution. (3) Where the Eighth Amendment provides that [e]xcessive bail shall not be required, nor fines imposed, nor and punishments inflicted, (4) the Constitution of Louisiana provides that [n]o law shall subject any person to to torture, or to cruel, excessive, or (5) While both of these respective provisions undoubtedly serve similar functions, the protections provided by the Constitution of Louisiana seem facially more expansive. (6) The Supreme Court of Louisiana dealt with the state constitutional challenge to the death sentence summarily in a footnote. (7) The entirety of the state constitutional analysis of the proportionality challenge to the death sentence consisted of the following: In State v. Perry,... we held that [t]he framers of our state constitution clearly intended for this guarantee to go beyond the scope of the Eighth Amendment in some respects and to provide at least the same level of protection as the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment and all others. Indeed, distinct from the Eighth Amendment, Art. 1, [section] 20 expressly prohibits euthanasia, excessive punishment, and cruel or unusual punishment. However, for purposes of capital punishment for child rape, we find this language does not provide any additional protections beyond those provided by the Eighth Amendment. (8) The problem with this analysis is not that the Supreme Court of Louisiana finds that the death penalty for child rape is not contrary to the proportionality requirement of the Constitution of Louisiana, but that the court fails to articulate what that standard is, and why the death penalty for child rape fails to violate that standard. The purpose of this Note is to explore what the standard for punishment under the Constitution of Louisiana is, and how the Supreme Court of Louisiana could have adjudicated this matter more appropriately. Part II will explore the historic role of state constitutions, and state high courts, in providing individual rights to their citizens for the purpose of providing a context against which the actions of the Supreme Court of Louisiana can be evaluated. Part III will identify and discuss the various methodologies utilized by state high courts to adjudicate issues concerning fundamental rights under either the Federal Constitution or their state constitutions. These methodologies will provide a theoretical framework to identify and further evaluate what the court has done in its jurisprudence. Part IV will explore how other state high courts have treated challenges to punishments under their respective punishment provisions, which will further contextualize our inquiry. Answering the first part of our inquiry, Part V will determine, according to the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, what the standard for punishment under the Constitution of Louisiana is. Finally, addressing the second part of our inquiry, Part VI will critique the decision in light of the findings of Parts IV and V, and will discuss the possible reasoning for the approach adopted by the Supreme Court of Louisiana. II. THE ROLE OF STATE CONSTITUTIONS Since the end of the Warren Court era and the Supreme Court's decision in Michigan v. Long, (9) state high courts and constitutions have played an increasingly important role in the recognition and protection of fundamental rights. …" @default.
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• W303570469 title "State Constitutional Adjudication in a Footnote? A Critique of the Supreme Court of Louisiana's Decision in State V. Kennedy" @default.
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