· 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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