Amid its flurry of end of term opinions last week, the Supreme Court dropped its decision in Grants Pass v. Johnson, the case asking whether the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishments prohibits states and localities from criminalizing the homeless sleeping outside if those homeless individuals have nowhere else to sleep. Predictably, the six conservative justices held that it does not, overruling the Ninth Circuit’s prior decision in
Being and Doing in Criminal Law
Being and Doing in Criminal Law
Being and Doing in Criminal Law
Amid its flurry of end of term opinions last week, the Supreme Court dropped its decision in Grants Pass v. Johnson, the case asking whether the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishments prohibits states and localities from criminalizing the homeless sleeping outside if those homeless individuals have nowhere else to sleep. Predictably, the six conservative justices held that it does not, overruling the Ninth Circuit’s prior decision in