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SF Court: Cities can't prosecute people for sleeping on streets
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| September 4, 2018
| Rebecca Boone
Posted on 09/04/2018 7:06:51 PM PDT by artichokegrower
BOISE, Idaho (AP) Cities can't prosecute people for sleeping on the streets if they have nowhere else to go because it amounts to cruel and unusual punishment, which is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court said Tuesday.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; US: California; US: Idaho
KEYWORDS: 9thcircuit; appeals; boise; california; court; cruelandunusual; homeless; idaho; jerrybrown; ninthcircuit; sanfrancisco; sleeping; socialistparadise; unconstitutional
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To: AlaskaErik
So how do you legally prevent people from being in a public place?
How do you prevent them from eventually falling asleep?
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09/05/2018 7:14:52 AM PDT
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Romulus
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