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Jones v. Mississippi , 593 U.S. ___ (2021), was a United States Supreme Court case regarding the imposition of life sentences for juveniles . The Supreme Court had previously ruled in Miller v.
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the Missouri law violated a section of the U.S. Constitution known as the supremacy clause, which asserts that federal law takes precedence over state laws.
United States v. Jones may refer to several Supreme Court cases: United States v. Jones, 109 U.S. 513 (1883), a case in which the Court outlined the requirements of the United States government when instituting the right of eminent domain; United States v. Jones, 119 U.S. 477 (1886) United States v. Jones, 121 U.S. 89 (1887) United States v ...
Citing a line of cases related to 8th Amendment concerns, the Court demonstrated also that such a severe penalty for so relatively minor a crime was impermissible. In fact, the Court stated that even if the least severe form of punishment statutorily allowed for this crime had been ordered, this would have been "repugnant to the Bill of Rights."
Vitek v. Jones, 445 U.S. 480 (1980), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that state prisoners are entitled to notice, an adversarial hearing, and counsel before their involuntary transfer to state mental hospitals for treatment under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause.
Payne v. Tennessee, 501 U.S. 808 (1991), was a United States Supreme Court case authored by Chief Justice William Rehnquist which held that testimony in the form of a victim impact statement is admissible during the sentencing phase of a trial and, in death penalty cases, does not violate the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause of the Eighth Amendment. [1]
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