Criminal
Mar. 1, 2002
Petty Theft
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - On Feb. 7, for the second time in the past few months, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that it is cruel and unusual punishment to impose lengthy sentences for trivial offenses under California's three-strikes law.
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law
UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
Forum Column
By Erwin Chemerinsky
On Feb. 7, for the second time in the past few months, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that it is cruel and unusual punishment to impose lengthy sentences f...
By Erwin Chemerinsky
On Feb. 7, for the second time in the past few months, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that it is cruel and unusual punishment to impose lengthy sentences f...
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