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  2. Robinson v. California - Wikipedia

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    Robinson v. California, 370 U.S. 660 (1962), is the first landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court in which the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution was interpreted to prohibit criminalization of particular acts or conduct, as contrasted with prohibiting the use of a particular form of punishment for a crime.

  3. Robert Roberson case - Wikipedia

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    Robert Leslie Roberson III (born November 10, 1966) is an American man convicted and on death row for the murder of his two-year-old daughter in 2002. Roberson was accused of severely assaulting his daughter and causing her death, and was tried and convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in 2003.

  4. City of Grants Pass v. Johnson - Wikipedia

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    In this case, the punishments of fines, temporary bans from entering public property, and one-month jail sentences are viewed as neither cruel nor unusual. Second, while Robinson v. California prohibited criminalizing statuses, Grants Pass's anti-camping ordinances are interpreted as neutrally applied, regardless of one's housing status. [13]

  5. Rachel Robinson - Wikipedia

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    Commissioner's Historic Achievement Award (2007) Buck O'Neil Lifetime Achievement Award (2017) Rachel Annetta Robinson[ 1 ] (née Isum; born July 19, 1922) [ 1 ] is an American former professor and registered nurse. She is the widow of professional baseball player Jackie Robinson. After her husband's death, she founded the Jackie Robinson ...

  6. People v. Berry - Wikipedia

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    People v. Berry[1] is a voluntary manslaughter case that is widely taught in American law schools for the appellate court ' s unusual interpretation of heat of passion doctrine. Although the defendant had time to "cool down" between his wife's verbal admission of infidelity and the killing, the California Supreme Court held that the provocation ...

  7. Chimel v. California - Wikipedia

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    Chimel v. California, 395 U.S. 752 (1969), was a 1969 United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that police officers arresting a person at his home could not search the entire home without a search warrant, but that police may search the area within immediate reach of the person without a warrant. [1]

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