Tonja Jacobi

Northwestern University

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Cruel and Unusual Punishment (VIII)

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In re Winship, 397 U.S. 358 (1970)

In In re Winship, twelve-year-old Samuel Winship was charged with delinquency for allegedly entering a locker and stealing $112 from a woman’s pocketbook, a crime that would…

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