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People v Sinclair
Keywords marijuana conviction; cannabis; narcotic; equal protection; scientific evidence; less harmful; less addictive; opiates; marijuana(1972)
Papachristou v. Jacksonville
Keywords vagrancy law; due process; arbitrary arrests; marginalized people; addicts; pushers; unconstitutional(1972)
People v. McCabe
Keywords Marijuana; rational basis; drug classification; mandatory sentence; hard narcotics; drug classification(1971)
Smith v. Follette
Keywords sentencing law; drug addiction; prison; treatment; due process; equal protection; felonies; judicial sentencing(1971)
Holt v. Sarver
Keywords Eighth Amendment; prisons; medical care; rehab; cruel and unusual punishment; totality test(1971)
Bivens v. Six Unknown Fed. Narcotics Agents
Keywords warrantless drug raids; federal agents; narcotics enforcement; drug raids; police misconduct; civil rights(1971)
Leary v. United States
Keywords Fifth Amendment; due process; self-incrimination; marijuana; illegal importation; constitutional rights(1969)
People v. Moore
(1968)
Powell v. Texas
Keywords public intoxication; Eighth Amendment; conduct; status; Robinson v. California(1968)
United States v. Moore
Keywords heroin possession; diversion program; addiction; drug conviction; deference; scientific uncertainty(1968)
Bailey v. United States
Keywords federal case; warrantless search; probable cause; heroin offenses; jury instruction; addiction; criminal liability; convicted men; Fourth Amendment; due process(1967)
Driver v. Hinnant
Keywords public intoxication; chronic alcoholism; involuntary conduct; involuntary act(1966)
Easter v. District of Columbia
Keywords public intoxication; due process; cruel punishment; criminalizing illness; alcoholism defense; chronic alcoholism; alcoholism defense; criminalizing illness(1966)
People v. Victor
Keywords narcotics conviction; entrapment; drug conviction; drug-seeking behavior; prior drug use(1965)
Brown v. United States
Keywords Insanity defense; narcotics charges; addiction; court assistance; legal aid; D.C. Circuit; reversed and remanded; drug addiction defense; mental health defense; criminal appeal(1964)