Rummel v. Estelle
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| Rummel v. Estelle | ||||||||||
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| Argued January 7, 1980 Decided March 18, 1980 |
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| The Court affirmed the Texas state court's decision that life in prison with possibility of parole is not cruel and unusual punishment for a habitual offender convicted of passing bad checks. | ||||||||||
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| Chief Justice: Warren E. Burger Associate Justices: William J. Brennan, Jr., Potter Stewart, Byron White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., William Rehnquist, John Paul Stevens |
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| Majority by: Justice Rehnquist |
Rummel v. Estelle 445 U. S. 263 (1980) is a United States Supreme Court case [1] in which the Court upheld a life sentence with the possibility of parole for fraud crimes totaling $230.
