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Re:How the Drug War Disappeared the Jury Trial by davorak on Friday January 17, 2014 @01:12AM (#7074555)
> Nope.

I am missing a legal nuance? It seems like a challenge along these lines is possible but unlikely to go very far.

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Re:How the Drug War Disappeared the Jury Trial by nknighthb on Friday January 17, 2014 @04:15AM (#7074944)
The Supreme Court has upheld three strikes laws that put people in prison for life for low-value non-violent thefts. No number of years for a crime, no matter how minor, seems to be too much. The only challenges that succeed are challenges to unusual applications of the death penalty.
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Re:How the Drug War Disappeared the Jury Trial by alexeisadeski3 on Friday January 17, 2014 @02:57AM (#7074781)
It's possible in the sense that you can submit anything you want. It's not possible in the sense that it'll be dismissed out of hand.
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