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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- 12 opinions
C. A. 4th Cir. Certiorari denied.