To borrow from Winston Churchill`s gripping cadences over the Battle of Britain, never have so many misfits owed so much to the few on the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The proof rests on Andrade vs. Attorney General of the State of California (Nov. 2, 2001), in which the court brandished the Eighth Amendment`s prohibition of "cruel and unusual" punishments to frustrate California`s "Three Strikes and Your Out Law" as applied to career criminal Leandro Andrade. For More Information See: Prosecution Is Prevention
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