Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Raines v. Singleton

498 U.S. 864

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1990-10-01
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • “We could hardly attribute to Congress the intention of branding someone a career criminal offender who, for example, committed several separate felonies during a single drunken spree, with no time to sober up and reconsider between the separate incidents.”

Citator

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C. A. 4th Cir. Certiorari denied.