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" To be sure, imprisonment for ninety days is not, in the abstract, a punishment which is either cruel or unusual. But the question cannot be considered in the abstract. Even one day in prison would be a cruel and unusual punishment for the "crime "
Treatment and Rehabilitation of Narcotics Addicts: Hearings, Ninety-second ... - Page 326
by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 4 - 1971
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 445

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1979 - 996 pages
...Court said that "imprisonment for ninety days is not, in the abstract, a punishment which is either cruel or unusual. But the question cannot be considered in the abstract. Even one day in prison would be a cruel and unusual punishment for the 'crime' of having a common cold." Ibid. In Furman v. Georgia,...
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Supreme Court Reporter, Volume 82, Part 1

United States. Supreme Court - 1961 - 890 pages
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Connecticut Bar Journal, Volume 40

1966 - 820 pages
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Southern Reporter: Cases argued and determined in the courts of Alabama ...

1963 - 974 pages
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Journal of the Assembly, Legislature of the State of California, Volume 2

California. Legislature. Assembly - 1962 - 1580 pages
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United States Supreme Court Reports, Volume 63

United States. Supreme Court - 1981 - 1098 pages
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Crime and Delinquency, Volumes 23-24

1977 - 1052 pages
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Cases and Comments on Criminal Justice, Volume 1

Fred Edward Inbau, James R. Thompson, Claude R. Sowle - 1968 - 906 pages
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United States Supreme Court Reports

United States. Supreme Court - 1963 - 1188 pages
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Cases and Materials on Constitutional Law: Selected from Decisions ..., Volume 1

Walter Fairleigh Dodd - 1963 - 756 pages
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