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7th Circuit says life sentence for crack dealer doesn’t violate Eighth Amendment (access required)

POSTED: Monday, October 29th, 2012 at 1:51 pm

BY: Correy Stephenson, Dolan Newswires

The Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment does not preclude a mandatory life sentence for dealers who possess a smaller quantity of crack cocaine than the quantity of powder cocaine necessary to trigger a similar sentence, the 7th Circuit has ruled.

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