Mostly that of the government, it seems.
The Supreme Court ruled in 1978 that threatening someone with life
imprisonment for a minor crime in an effort to induce him to forfeit a
jury trial did not violate his Sixth Amendment right to trial. Thirteen
years later, in Harmelin v. Michigan, the court ruled that life
imprisonment for a first-time drug offense did not violate the Eighth
Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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Professor Joseph Olson, J.D., LL.M.
o- 651-523-2142
Hamline University School of Law (MS-D2037)
f- 651-523-2236
St. Paul, MN 55113-1235
c- 612-865-7956
[email protected]
http://law.hamline.edu/constitutional_law/joseph_olson.html
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