Tag: 8th Amendment

Mississippi Supreme Court Confirms Man’s Life Sentence for Marijuana Possession

June 20, 2022
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A divided Supreme Court of Mississippi upheld a prisoner’s sentence of life imprisonment for possession of marijuana under the state’s violent habitual offender law. The affirmation of the sentence comes as laws regarding marijuana are being loosened nationwide. A Buffalo Law Review article by Paul J. Larkin Jr. titled “Cannabis Capitalism” from a year ago,…

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Indiana Court Orders Land Rover Returned, Ending Long Legal Battle Over Asset Forfeiture

June 13, 2021
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Two years after the U.S. Supreme Court established an important precedent by ruling in Tyson Timbs’s favor, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled last week that after an 8-year legal odyssey the man is entitled to get back his vehicle that was seized when he used it to sell illegal drugs. The case is of legal…

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Supreme Court Rules Against Teen Murderer

April 22, 2021
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The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 this morning against Brett Jones, a man convicted of committing murder when he was 15, finding his sentence of life imprisonment without parole does not violate the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishments. The decision came April 22 in Jones v. Mississippi, court file 18-1259. Justice Brett Kavanaugh…

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