Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization, Marisol Orihuela and Miriam Gohara for The Prison Law Office, Vincent Schiraldi and David Muhammad as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner William M. Palmer II.
Keker, Van Nest & Peters, Sharif E. Jacob and Taylor Reeves for Professor Vincent Schiraldi, Columbia University School of Social Work, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner William M. Palmer II.
Mark Zahner and Richard J. Sachs for California District Attorneys Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Respondents Board of Parole Hearings and California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
OPINION
CUÉLLAR, J.—
Judgments about the proper punishment for a crime are generally entrusted to the People's democratically elected representatives (see Gregg v. Georgia (1976) 428 U.S. 153, 175-176 [49 L.Ed.2d 859, 96 S.Ct. 2909] (plur. opn. of Stewart, J.))—and, in California...
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