By: Derek Hawkins//December 6, 2017//
WI Court of Appeals – District I
Case Name: State of Wisconsin v. Roy Lee Rogers
Case No.: 2016AP2094-CR
Officials: Stark, P.J., Hruz and Seidl, JJ.
Focus: Sentencing Guidelines
Roy Rogers, pro se, appeals orders denying separate postconviction motions to vacate his 1994 sentence and modify it to life imprisonment with parole eligibility on January 1, 2020. He argues: (1) his sentence violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment; (2) decisions of the United States Supreme Court regarding sentencing for juvenile offenders constitute a new factor warranting sentence modification; and (3) the sentencing court erroneously exercised its discretion when it imposed the same sentence it imposed for an adult co-defendant. We reject these arguments and affirm the orders.