Dalton (Miranda) v. State ( 2015 )

 and Dalton's sentence was greater than 78% of other defendants who
committed similar crimes.
Regardless of its severity, a sentence that is within the
statutory limits is not "cruel and unusual punishment unless the statute
fixing punishment is unconstitutional or the sentence is so unreasonably
disproportionate to the offense as to shock the conscience." Blume v. State,
112 Nev. 472, 475, 915 P.2d 282, 284 (1996) (internal quotation marks
omitted); see also Harmelin v. Michigan, 501 U.S. 957, 1000-01 (1991)
(plurality opinion) (explaining that the Eighth Amendment forbids only an
extreme sentence that is grossly disproportionate to the crime). Here, the
sentence imposed is within the parameters provided by the relevant
statute, see NRS 484C.430(1), Dalton's arguments do not demonstrate a
constitutional violation, and we are not convinced that the sentence
imposed is so grossly disproportionate to the crime as to constitute cruel
and unusual punishment. Accordingly, we
ORDER the judgment of conviction AFFIRMED.
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