By John Kruzel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from a Texas inmate convicted of robbery who argues that the 27 years he was forced by prison officials to spend in solitary confinement violated the constitutional bar against “cruel and unusual.”
The justices turned away Dennis Hope’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling that he had failed to show that his prolonged solitary confinement violated the U.S. Constitution Eighth Amendment prohibition on excessive punishment.
(Reporting by John Kruzel; Editing by Will Dunham)
