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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.
In the 1962 case Robinson v. California, the Supreme Court held that the Eighth Amendment prohibits criminalization of a status, as opposed to criminalizing criminal acts, in striking down a California law that criminalized being addicted to narcotics. [2] In the 1968 case Powell v.
Boise, the status of homelessness. The 1962 case, Robinson v. California, involved the status of being addicted to drugs. Following the decision in Martin v. Boise, lawyers representing homeless ...
United States v. Robinson , 414 U.S. 218 (1973), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that "in the case of a lawful custodial arrest a full search of the person is not only an exception to the warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment , but is also a reasonable search under that Amendment."
The Supreme Court hears arguments Thursday over whether former President Donald Trump can be kept off the 2024 ballot because of his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, culminating in ...
Baze v. Rees , 553 U.S. 35 (2008), is a decision by the United States Supreme Court , which upheld the constitutionality of a particular method of lethal injection used for capital punishment . Background of the case
Lockyer v. Andrade, 538 U.S. 63 (2003), [1] decided the same day as Ewing v. California (a case with a similar subject matter), [2] held that there would be no relief by means of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus from a sentence imposed under California's three strikes law as a violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishments.
McGautha v. California , 402 U.S. 183 (1971), is a criminal case heard by the United States Supreme Court , in which the Court held that the lack of legal standards by which juries imposed the death penalty was not an unconstitutional violation of the due process clause portions of the Fourteenth Amendment .