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· 2/5/1982

State v. Hinsley

Citations

  • 627 S.W.2d 351
  • 1982 Tenn. LEXIS 379

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  • determining that habitual drug offender statute was constitutional
  • determinate sentence of not less than ten years nor more than life for habitual drug offender not cruel and unusual punishment
  • determinate sentence of not less than ten years nor more than life for habitual drug offender not cruel and unusual punishment
  • a statute providing a determinate sentence of not less than ten years nor more than life imprisonment in the penitentiary for a three time drug offender was not per se violative of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution
  • sentencing provisions of the habitual drug offender act constitutional
  • finding sentencing provisions of the habitual drug offender act constitutional

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Judges: Brock, Harbison, Fones, Cooper, Drowota

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