Isaac Ramirez Rodriguez v. Virginia

This Court has ruled that a criminal sentence must be proportionate to the crime for which the defendant has been convicted. The question presented is: Are the mandatory minimum life sentence provisions of Virginia Code §§ 18.2-61(B)(2) and 18.2-67.2(B)(2) unconstitutional as constituting Cruel and Unusual Punishment prohibited by the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, making the mandatory minimum sentence of two life sentences plus 60 years plus 12 months imposed upon Petitioner in this case unconstitutionally disproportionate to the particular crimes for which he was convicted and unconstitutional. LIST OF PARTIES TO THE PROCEEDING The Petitioner (the respondent-appellant below) is Isaac Ramirez Rodriguez, who was born in 1985 and is now imprisoned in a facility of the Virginia Department of Corrections as a result of this case for two (2) life sentences plus 60 years plus 12 months as a result of convictions for sexual offenses against a juvenile female who was raised as his daughter and was born in 2005, with an offense date range from 2016 to 2021. The Respondent (the defendant-appellee below) is the Commonwealth of Virginia.