Robinson V. Lawrence Robinson Case Summary

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Facts of the case: A California statute made it a criminal offense for a person to "be addicted to the use of narcotics." Lawrence Robinson was convicted under the law, which required a sentence of at least ninety days in jail. After a police officer, who had noticed that Robinson's arms were scabbed, discolored, and filled with needle marks. The officer arrested Robinson, who was sent to the Los Angeles central jail. He was examined by a narcotics division of the police department and proven to have and injection of unsterilized hypodermic needles in his arm. Summary of one side’s arguments: Robinson believed it was an infliction of cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth Amendment. It violated the ban on cruel and unusual punishment

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