State v. Saiez

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• holding that a statute criminalizing mere possession of embossing machinery, used to reproduce credit cards, violated substantive due process because the legislative means of curtailing fraud bore no reasonable relationship to the admittedly proper objective
• invalidated statute criminalizing mere possession of a credit card embossing machine without regard to the intent of the possessor
• \[T]he guarantee of due process requires that the means selected shall have a reasonable and substantial relation to the object sought to be obtained... .\
• statute which criminalized mere possession of credit card embossing machine without regard to intent of possessor violated due process
• possession of credit card embossing machine prohibited only when credit card issuer has not consented to the preparation of the cards
• invalidated statute criminalizing mere possession of a credit -8- card embossing machine without regard to the intent of the possessor

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