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Proportionality Can the legislature set any penalty it wants for a drug crime or is its severity capped by the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of excessive punishments? Should the law enforcement employ the same methods in trying to catch a murder suspect as in apprehending a marijuana smoker? The excerpts from opinions written by our top judges are illustrative in making out the courts' approach to these issues. Pages: ‹1› ‹2› ‹3› ‹4› ‹5› ‹6› ‹7› Arizona v. Evans (1995) JUSTICE STEVENS, dissenting: The offense to the dignity of the citizen who is arrested, handcuffed, and searched on a public street simply because some bureaucrat has failed to maintain an accurate computer data base strikes me as equally outrageous. In this case, of course, such an error led to the fortuitous detection of respondent's unlawful possession of marijuana, and the suppression of the fruit of the error would prevent the prosecution of his crime. That cost, however, must be weighed against the interest in protecting other, wholly innocent citizens from unwarranted indignity. [...] Pages: ‹1› ‹2› ‹3› ‹4› ‹5› ‹6› ‹7›

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