Joshua v. Adams, No. 05-55437 (9th Cir.) (2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 10757) (May 2, 2007) (Per Curiam)
Loaded on April 1, 2007
published in Punch and Jurists
April 09, 2007
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Cruel and Unusual Punishment.
Here the court upheld a mentally ill man's three-strikes sentence of 25 years to life Wednesday for shoplifting two bottles of liquor from a Southern California market, a sentence that a dissenting judge called 'barbarous. The ruling consists of a three-page majority opinion and a sixteen-page dissenting opinion.
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- Powers v. Snyder, No. 04-1961 (7th Cir.) (484 F.3d 929) (May 3, 2007) (Judge Richard A. Posner)
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