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Moncrieffe v. Holder, No. 11-702 (U.S. Supreme Court) (569 U.S. 184; 133 S.Ct. 1678) (April 23, 2013) (Justice Sotomayor)

Loaded on April 29, 2013 published in Punch and Jurists April 29, 2013
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Marijuana - Social Use.

By a 7-2 vote, the Supreme Court extended a small degree of leniency (and a large dose of rationality) to the U.S. immigration laws by holding that non-citizens living legally in the U.S. who get convicted in a state court for ”social sharing of a small amount of marijuana,” are ...

 

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