Abstract
In this 2011 Alaska Court of Appeals case, the defendant Kira Gray appealed her earlier conviction for first-degree murder where she was sentenced to almost 100 years in prison. She was sixteen at the time of the murder, but under Alaska statute she was tried as an adult. The Court of Appeals found that her waiver to adult court did not constitute cruel and unusual punishment and that her sentence did not violate the Eighth Amendment prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment.
Abstract
In this 2011 Alaska Court of Appeals case, the defendant Kira Gray appealed her earlier conviction for first-degree murder where she was sentenced to almost 100 years in prison. She was sixteen at the time of the murder, but under Alaska statute she was tried as an adult. The Court of Appeals found that her waiver to adult court did not constitute cruel and unusual punishment and that her sentence did not violate the Eighth Amendment prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment.
Summary
In Gray v. State, a 2011 decision by the Alaska Court of Appeals, the defendant, Kira Gray, appealed her conviction for first-degree murder, which had resulted in a nearly 100-year prison sentence. Gray was sixteen years old at the time of the offense, but under Alaska law, she was tried as an adult. The court found that Gray's waiver to adult court did not constitute cruel and unusual punishment and that her sentence did not violate the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
Abstract
In this 2011 Alaska Court of Appeals case, the defendant Kira Gray appealed her earlier conviction for first-degree murder where she was sentenced to almost 100 years in prison. She was sixteen at the time of the murder, but under Alaska statute she was tried as an adult. The Court of Appeals found that her waiver to adult court did not constitute cruel and unusual punishment and that her sentence did not violate the Eighth Amendment prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment.
Summary
In Gray v. State, the Alaska Court of Appeals addressed the issue of a juvenile defendant's waiver to adult court and the subsequent sentence. The defendant, Kira Gray, was sixteen at the time of the murder and was tried as an adult under Alaska statute. The court upheld the trial court's decision, finding that the waiver did not constitute cruel and unusual punishment and that the sentence did not violate the Eighth Amendment.
Abstract
In this 2011 Alaska Court of Appeals case, the defendant Kira Gray appealed her earlier conviction for first-degree murder where she was sentenced to almost 100 years in prison. She was sixteen at the time of the murder, but under Alaska statute she was tried as an adult. The Court of Appeals found that her waiver to adult court did not constitute cruel and unusual punishment and that her sentence did not violate the Eighth Amendment prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment.
Summary
In 2011, a young woman named Kira Gray appealed her conviction for first-degree murder. Gray, who was sixteen at the time of the crime, was tried as an adult under Alaskan law and sentenced to nearly 100 years in prison.
The Court of Appeals ruled that Gray's transfer to adult court was not considered cruel and unusual punishment. The court also determined that her sentence did not violate the Eighth Amendment, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.
Abstract
In this 2011 Alaska Court of Appeals case, the defendant Kira Gray appealed her earlier conviction for first-degree murder where she was sentenced to almost 100 years in prison. She was sixteen at the time of the murder, but under Alaska statute she was tried as an adult. The Court of Appeals found that her waiver to adult court did not constitute cruel and unusual punishment and that her sentence did not violate the Eighth Amendment prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment.
Summary
Kira Gray was convicted of murder when she was sixteen. She was tried as an adult in Alaska and sentenced to almost 100 years in prison. She appealed her conviction, but the court found that her trial as an adult and her sentence were not cruel or unusual punishment.